NET SEARCH ABOUT ABORIGINAL ART AND CULTURE
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 8:55 pm
1. The Indigenous cultures of Australia are the oldest living cultural history in the world - they go back at least 50,000 years and some argue closer to 65,000 years.
2.The settlement of white man in Australia began in 1779, but it wasn’t until 1788 that permanent settlement began.
3.When Europeans came the Aboriginals were not happy with what the settlers were doing. They didn’t like how they were being treated and how the land was just taken away from them. As a result Aboriginals attacked some of the white settlers and the white settlers attacked back.
4.A didgeridoo is an aboriginal music instrument
5.In Spain there are many examples of indigenous art: many dolmen in different places and paintings in some caves, for example one of the most famous is Altamira, which one I have visited (not the original but the copy) last week when I was visiting the north and the north-west of Spain.
2.The settlement of white man in Australia began in 1779, but it wasn’t until 1788 that permanent settlement began.
3.When Europeans came the Aboriginals were not happy with what the settlers were doing. They didn’t like how they were being treated and how the land was just taken away from them. As a result Aboriginals attacked some of the white settlers and the white settlers attacked back.
4.A didgeridoo is an aboriginal music instrument
5.In Spain there are many examples of indigenous art: many dolmen in different places and paintings in some caves, for example one of the most famous is Altamira, which one I have visited (not the original but the copy) last week when I was visiting the north and the north-west of Spain.