Podcast
The science of the Dreamtime
ABC Conversations, Vol.4 September 2018
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
2018
Abstract
Patrick Nunn has spent his career looking at the scientific evidence of catastrophic natural events that occurred thousands of years ago, like volcanic eruptions, and meteor crashes. He's found that many of these disasters were witnessed by people and their stories were memorised and passed on for thousands of years. Patrick says it's now recognised by science that many of the stories once thought of as 'folk memories' were actually eyewitness accounts, based on observations of a geological phenomenon. The Indigenous people of north-west America remember the creation of Crater Lake, which occurred seven thousand years ago. Aboriginal people recorded the drowning of the Australian coastline, which happened at the end of the last Ice Age. Patrick says the evidence for the factual basis of these events was always there in the stories but, until now, nobody was listening.
Details
- Title
- The science of the Dreamtime
- Authors
- Patrick Nunn (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
- Publication details
- ABC Conversations, Vol.4 September 2018
- Format
- 47:13 minutes
- Publisher
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Date published
- 2018
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451239402621
- Output Type
- Podcast
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