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Aboriginals arrived in Australia between 40000
and 70000 years ago.
There are 600 different language groups from
the north of Australia to Tasmania
http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/map/
The clothing depended on the climate
 In the warm climate they
were not much clothing but
in the cold weather they
wear lots of clothing
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Aboriginal people can tell where animals have
been because of the tracks. Women hunted small
animals and gathered other food. Aboriginals used
different tools and weapons in different
environments.
In the inland part of Australia aboriginals catch
food like kangaroos, emu and snakes.
Aboriginals hunted their food by using a hunting
boomerang to brake the legs of the animal … then
spear it.
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Catching dugong and green sea-turtles are very
important to coastal aboriginals. Coastal
aboriginals use
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Women gathered nuts, berries, fruit and
vegetables. Women gathered food because
men were out hunting.
There are lots of different weapons like
boomerangs. There are two types of boomerangs
there is a hunting boomerang and a boomerang
that comes back.
They crushed paper bark then applied to wound.
People sucked on a desert mushroom to fix saw
lips.
Aboriginals lived in houses made out of
reasonable thick tree bark or trees.
Much of aboriginal art showed the landscape from
a cliff view.
http://dl.nfsa.gov.au/module/1306/