Culture of Aboriginal Peoples Australia

Culture of Aboriginal Peoples Australia

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Culture of Aboriginal Peoples Australia

Introduction

Austria’s Aboriginal culture is one of the best tools that can be said to represent the oldest serving culture in the world. This culture uses painting and stone tool technology with ochre pigment they date back to over 60, 000 years (Colson, 2013). Australians never developed and iron age, bronze age or Potter and such terms such as Paleolithic and Neolithic that are used to mean old and new stone age respectively have never been employed in Australia because there was no stone technology progress as it was in the world(Holz, 2014).

The ancient stone tool technology is the most humankind’s innovation with perceived methods of chipping away at the edge of the rock to make it sharper and use it for cutting dates back to 2. 5 million years ago and was still practiced till the 1960s by Aborigines. Many flake scrapers and stone choppers commonly made until the last few decades are the same as those of the earliest tools. The flaked tools that are used to shape implements and wooden weapons are also part of the history (Colson, 2013). The manufacturing of ground axes that are occasionally made today dates back to over 20000 years. The new technology that is applied in creating stones blades was begun in about 5000 years ago, and it led to the innovation of additional stone spear points and blade shaped stone knives and scrapers(Colson, 2013).

The modern man was once thought of as to have begun with the arrival of Cro-Magnon man in Europe. The current thinking however that is postulated by the archeologist has found out that the genetic studies of mutations in mitochondrial DNA are the modern man evolved in Africa about 190, 000 years ago(Robbins, 2010). This man is found to have moved to the Middle East and then to Asia and finally to Australia at least 60, 000 years ago. It was during this time that the Neanderthal man was the dominant hominid in Europe and the modern man later migrated to Europe about 40, 000 years ago(Robbins, 2010).

Other cultures in the world evolved and developed while Australian remained relatively isolated in their island continent. Tasmanian Australian were the most isolated and they were left alone from other Australians who seas rose and created Tasmania Island in the south. Aborigines once colonized Indonesia and Asia but were later displaced by waves of people who later developed into modern-day Chinese and many other cultures in the world (Holz, 2014).

The longest and lasting religion that still continues to exist belongs to Australia’s aborigines. The Rainbow serpent mythology was recorded in the rock shelter paintings, and they are believed to be 7000 years old in Kakadu National Park. This ancestral Being is still significant to the local people, and the ancestral rock shows the prevailing customs. Although they lack a formal written language, aborigines have recorded their culture as rock art for a thousand years. Their art is used to show the environment such as the animals and the plants that are believed to have existed 40, 000 years ago. The rock art tradition as engravings and paintings on exposed rocks are still existing today, and some of the most ancient paintings are used to depict people dressed for dancing and ceremonies with similar accouterments and decorations revealing more of Aboriginal culture(Colson, 2013).