In the stone age they built "Stonehenge" or whatever the name was that the religious civilisation gave it. Who knows , there was no writing and probably no wheels.
Organisation built the Brewarrina fish traps and loads of stone from it filled many wagons for colonial farms. There is evidence of eel smoking ovens in Victoria which suggests trade . It's known that Melbourne green-stone axes were traded as far as Bourke. Today the Ringbalin ceremony is organised as in the past for people from south Qld along the river to Adelaide. That's in 4 states which is near enough to being federal.

To Thomas O'Reilly.

Your last post in which you claimed that the aboriginal race is morally superior to every other race, is not only racist, it is so off the mark it is hilarious.

The aboriginal people in Australia were unable to create a civilization because of the unique environment in Australia. In order to create a civilization, the very first prerequisite is to have a reliable food supply. The aboriginal people could never acheive this, because there are no herdable animals nor croppable flora in Australia. The aborigines were therefore condemned to live forever at the level of the hand to mouth existence.

That is the lowest level of human existence, and for you to present that as a virtue, shows how desperate you are to think up something, anything, to defend your ridiculous worldview.

Without civilization, the aboriginal people simply did not need to evolve the higher learning abilities of their brains. You don't nede to be too smart to be a hunter gatherer. You don't need a Stonehenge to define the seasons because you don't grow crops anyway.

If the Australian aborigines had had cattle, sheep, goats and chickens, as well as rice, wheat, oats, sorghum,apples, and oranges, and the rest of the world had nothing but kangaroos, emus and wombats, it would have been the aboriginal people who would have first created civilization, developed the higher learning abilities of their brain, and it would have been they who would have first creatednuclear weapons, and gone on to spread their civilisation and influence around the world

At the Stonehenge shearing shed when the sun broke through the English fog the illiterate stone age shearers ripped the wool off the elders' sheep. They learnt nothing and ate hand to mouth and drank beer the same way.

Elders Wool Market Reports
www.elders.com.au/wool/market-reports
Elders provides the latest information on the wool market prices and averages.

Finally the Aboriginal Scientific Industrial and Research Organisation built the legendary Wool Extraction
System using gum-tree gear wheels in a didjeridoo .

" David Unaipon was also an inventor. He studied aerodynamics and produced an improved mechanical sheep-shearing handpiece. He lodged ten patents for various inventions. Despite his fame, he was often refused accommodation because of his race. He died in 1967. His portrait is depicted on the Australian $50 note."

@L-EGO "Your last post in which you claimed that the aboriginal race is morally superior to every other race is not only racist, it is so off the mark it is hilarious."

Seriously L-EGO in my humble opinion, adding up all your general contributions I note your continued inability to hear accurately what others say, not only me.

Now L-EGO you might imagine you can read sometimes, but you sure cannot seem to thunk straight or compute what was said or what it means correctly.

I suspect (from long experience) you do not even care about that, or what other people might really mean or believe anyway. It's possibly too much for you to "go there" and get the facts right in the first place.

You're only here to satisfy your own EGO imo.

So believe what you wish, but if you think I care an iota about your utterances here on any subject, mine or others, then you need to get that - I do not -

I will continue to ignore everything you say on this site. (this is a one off reply)

Many others have basically said the same thing to you repeatedly on OLO, and yet it obviously passes you by like a ship in the night.

PLONK!
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Thomas,

Writing is more than just communication, it is a keeping of records and passing down of information from one generation to another, and it is a key determinate of whether a society has achieved civilization. Also literature is more than just writing, a grocery list is writing, but not literature.

Also, a virtuous society is not necessarily civilized and vice versa, and most of the virtues you ascribe to aborigines is due to their lack of capacity. A chicken is not virtuous because it cannot build a gunboat.

Secondly, there are plenty of records of inter tribal warfare amongst the aboriginals, and no record that their culture was continuous more than 100 years.

@Shadow Minister: "and no record that their culture was continuous more than 100 years."

Well of course, you are correct on that point Shadow Minister.

Simply because you intentionally choose to ignore every single piece of the thousands upon thousands of pieces of hard evidence (known as incontrovertible facts) that say otherwise.

I do not think you are necessarily a slow learner. I have no idea. But I do believe that you are incredibly indignant without any justification for it, and ignorant.

That's 'ignorant' as in 'not knowing'

-adjective - lacking knowledge or awareness in general (about this topic)

Believe what you wish. Ignore everything I say. Do not use any of the links to information I provided days ago, nor use Google Search either.

New true Information and insights about our world and other people often causes cognitive dissonance and that can 'hurt' sometimes.

For others, see the Link to another potential aid in expanding your current knowledge about being human. http://skepdic.com/cognitivedissonance.html
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