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Fire in the sky: The southern lights in Indigenous oral traditions
Duane W. Hamacher
Parts of Australia have been privileged to see dazzling lights in the night sky as the Aurora Australis (known as the southern lights) puts on a show this year. Aurorae are signifi…
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Identifying seasonal stars in Kaurna astronomical traditions
Duane W. Hamacher
Early ethnographers and missionaries recorded Aboriginal languages and oral traditions across Australia. Their general lack of astronomical training resulted in misidentifications,…
physics.hist-ph2015
Finding meteorite impacts in Aboriginal oral tradition
Duane W. Hamacher
Aboriginal stories dating back many thousands of years talk of a fire from the sky in an area now home to the Henbury meteorite craters, in the Northern Territory