Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia by Billy Griffiths (Paperback, 2018)

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'What a revelatory work! The freshest, most important book about our past in years.'. Written in vivid, evocative prose, this book will grip both the expert and the general reader alike. Both ancient and modern Australia have here found a truly worthy historian.'.

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Billy Griffiths excavates two absorbing, transformative movements in twentieth-century history- the reassertion of Aboriginal identity and the uncovering of traces of ancient Australia by pioneering archaeologists. Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. In this original, important book, Griffiths investigates a twin revolution- the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in the second half of the twentieth century, and the simultaneous uncovering of the traces of ancient Australia by pioneering archaeologists. Deep Time Dreaming is about a slow shift in national consciousness. It explores what it means to live in a place of great antiquity, with its complex questions of ownership and identity. It brings to life the deep time dreaming that has changed the way many Australians relate to their continent and its enduring, dynamic human history. 'When John Mulvaney began his fieldwork in January 1956, it was widely believed that the first Australians had arrived on this continent only a few thousand years earlier. In the decades since, Australian history has been pushed back into the dizzying expanse of deep time. The human presence here has been revealed to be more ancient than that of Europe, and the Australian landscape, far from being terra nullius, is now recognised to be cultural as much as natural, imprinted with stories and law and shaped by the hands and firesticks of thousands of generations of Indigenous men and women. The New World has become the Old ...'

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PublisherBlack Inc.
ISBN-139781760640446
eBay Product ID (ePID)11046440891

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Number of Pages392 Pages
Publication NameDeep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaRegional History
AuthorBilly Griffiths
FormatPaperback

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Item Height233 mm
Item Weight508 g
Item Width154 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureAustralia
Title_AuthorBilly Griffiths

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