If you want more of a genuine Australian history and narrative make it your duty to listen to this. I feel privilege de to have been in this regions mentioned in the book and to live and work on indigenous land. There were many brave souls that ventured to the far corners of the country to piece all this together, as well as those kind enough to allow westerners to share it. I never found anything in this book dry or unapproachable and it did shine a light on many of the epic stories that had to happen to bring this information to us, the “ east coast” readers. Whilst it’s not told from the perspective of indigenous peoples and is intentionally done so, it truly advocates a thorough rethinking of what our country’s history really says, through western methods of archaeology and of anthropological narrative. Authors at Abbeys 131 York Street, Sydney - Billy Griffiths Deep Time Dreaming is an exploration of the history of the Australian continent that was years. Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. Equipped with a historian’s inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent. As someone that lives in an Aboriginal community in central Australia I felt an urge to delve deeper into this, the hidden story of our country. Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked.
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