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History 7-10 / Year 7 / Knowledge and understanding / Deep time history of Australia
Curriculum content descriptions
how First Nations Australians are the world’s oldest continuing cultures, displaying evidence of both continuity and change over deep time (AC9HH7K03)
Elaborations
- investigating dating methods used by archaeologists for the study of early First Nations Australians; for example, the use of the “Before Present” (BP) dating system
- exploring how we know about continuities and changes in First Nations Australians’ cultures; for example, the archaeological research showing evidence of occupation and the lives of First Nations Australians during the Pleistocene epoch at sites such as Lake Mungo and Kutikina Cave
- exploring evidence of continuities and changes in the ancient period at specific sites; for example, dating the creation of pictographs and the carving of petroglyphs at sites such as the Dampier Archipelago, Grampians National Park, Kakadu National Park, Koonalda Cave, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Preminghana, and the West Kimberley
- exploring evidence of continuing culture that was evident in the ancient period, such as the use of ochre
- examining First Nations Australians’ views on creation and changes in the landscape that have been passed down through oral tradition, such as the existence of megafauna, changes from wetter to drier climates and changes in vegetation in central Australia
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Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms
Arts, Archives, Archaeologists, Pottery, Historians, Icons (Symbols), Writing materials