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Ancient Aboriginal stories preserve history of a rise in sea level
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Ancient Aboriginal stories preserve history of a rise in sea level

Nick Reid and Patrick Nunn
The Conversation, Vol.13 January 2015
2015
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Archaeology Environmental Science and Management sea level ancestral stories Indigenous Australians storytelling oral traditions
In the beginning, as far back as we remember, our home islands were not islands at all as they are today. They were part of a peninsula that jutted out from the mainland and we roamed freely throughout the land without having to get in a boat like we do today. Then Garnguur, the seagull woman, took her raft and dragged it back and forth across the neck of the peninsula letting the sea pour in and making our homes into islands.

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