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The world's oldest observatory? How Aboriginal astronomy provides clues to ancient life

An ancient Aboriginal site at a secret location in the Victorian bush could be the oldest astronomical observatory in the world, pre-dating Stonehenge and even the Great Pyramids of Giza.

Scientists studying the Wurdi Yuang stone arrangement say it could date back more than 11,000 years and provide clues into the origins of agriculture.

Dr Duane Hamacher is a leader in the study of Indigenous astronomy and has been working with Aboriginal elders at the site to reconstruct their knowledge of the stars and planets.

"Some academics have referred to this stone arrangement here as Australia's version of Stonehenge," he said.

"I think the question we might have to ask is: is Stonehenge Britain's version of Wurdi Yuang? Because this could be much, much older."

If the site is more than 7,000-years old, it will rewrite history and further disprove the notion that first Australians were uniformly nomadic, hunter-gatherers.


PHOTO: These rocks are thought to have once marked the sun's journey throughout the year. (ABC: Hamish Fitzsimmons)
Scientists believe the arrangement of stones was able to map out the movements of the sun throughout the year.

Custodian Reg Abrahams said the region around the observatory seemed to have once had semi-permanent villages with evidence of early fishing and farming practices.

"If you're going to have a stone arrangement where you mark off the seasons throughout the year with the solstices and equinoxes, it kind of makes sense if you're at least most of the year in one specific location to do that," he said.

"So if that's the case, it would make sense if you're near permanent food and water sources."

He said there were areas where eel traps would have been set up and even signs of "gilgies", or terraces used in farming.

"You see a lot of agricultural and aquacultural practices, so evidence of this agriculture may go back tens of thousands of years, pre-dating what anthropologists commonly think of as the dawn of agriculture which is about 6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia," he said.


PHOTO: Tchingal is the emu that can be seen in the Milky Way. (Supplied: Barnaby Norris)
Dr Hamacher said early first Australians had complex knowledge systems.

"They understand very well the motions of the sun, the moon, the planets and the stars throughout the year and over longer periods of time," he said.

"White Australians don't generally recognise that the history of colonialism has erased that, so what we're doing is helping the communities piece that information back together by working with communities."

Traditional owners like Judy Dalton-Walsh say research into the site and Aboriginal astronomy means that the knowledge can continue to be passed on.

"We learnt at school the European names for the stars and the Milky Way and it's also good to know that we traditionally had a name for them as well. Our gods were up there in the stars," she said.

That article is entirely conjecture. Though I am sure the cosmic connection will appeal to New-Agers. It is just as likely to have been a stone circle, which is not unique in Australia.

As for consulting the local native experts, it seems these days that anyone with a bit of aboriginal DNA is the custodian of an ancient culture equitable with the Greek, Chinese, or Inca.

Aboriginals must have expressed support for Palestinians to have earned a hate rant from Yadda.

it_is_the_light wrote on Oct 13^th, 2016 at 1:45pm:


it_is_the_light,

What did i say, that offended you or any Aboriginal person ?

Did i speak hate, or did i speak truth [i.e. light] ?

Is it the light which offends you ?


Yadda said.....
Quote:




John 3:20
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.




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it_is_the_light wrote on Oct 13^th, 2016 at 1:45pm:


it_is_the_light,

You are mistaken.

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http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1214199336/431#431




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it_is_the_light,

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1475197000/37#37
Quote:



it_is_the_light,

Is the advice in scripture [in the bible],      ....so distasteful to you and yours ?


I note, that Anthony Mundine turned to ISLAM.    !!!!



it_is_the_light,

If bad behaviour is reproved [by another], is it better, for the wrongdoer respond with scorn, or with shame ?


Proverbs 13:1
A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

lee wrote on Oct 13^th, 2016 at 4:22pm:


No, I think Yadda's beef with them is that some became Moslems.

Either that, or Y just hates darkies, as decreed by his angry prophet.

And so, he is forgiven for condemning a child to death for shoplifting.

All is in accordance with the DP.

Yadda wrote on Oct 14^th, 2016 at 10:28am:


incorrect .

one such as I am have merely announced your ideology you project

and then ,

you accuse me of calling you racist . this is false .

this is forgiven yet exposed as an attribute of your retardationalistical interpretation of reality

and your victim mentality and so ,whilst ye bake in your self derived pity party ,

and " us better than them " concepts and programming ,

you refuse to absorb the constructive criticism dispensated





Didgeridoo Sound Healing by Astarius Miraculii

this is observed without judgement and yet exposed with

so very much love

namaste

Yadda has denounced himself as a racist by his frequent inane hate rants.

How can Yadda who quotes the bible so casually be so full of hate? Is Yadda's hate a relic from his abandonment by his parents which Yadda himself confessed to being fostered.