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Eclipses in Australian Aboriginal Astronomy
Duane W. Hamacher, Ray P. Norris
We explore 50 Australian Aboriginal accounts of lunar and solar eclipses to determine how Aboriginal groups understood this phenomenon. We summarise the literature on Aboriginal re…
physics.hist-ph2011
"Bridging the Gap" through Australian Cultural Astronomy
Duane W. Hamacher, Ray P. Norris
For more than 50,000 years, Indigenous Australians have incorporated celestial events into their oral traditions and used the motions of celestial bodies for navigation, time-keepi…
physics.hist-ph2011★ 5 cited
Meteoritics and cosmology among the Aboriginal cultures of Central Australia
Duane W. Hamacher
The night sky played an important role in the social structure, oral traditions, and cosmology of the Arrernte and Luritja Aboriginal cultures of Central Australia. A component of…