Night sky culture Specific stars and constellations are used by some Aboriginal language groups to help them remember key waypoints along a route, detailed oral histories reveal. The research, ...

Hidden on the edge of a cliff in Australia's Blue Mountains, tucked away in the woods, a wallaby has been painstakingly carved into rock. It’s ancient, estimated to be at least 7,000 years old, and ...

For 50,000 years, Australia’s First Peoples have traveled long distances using star maps in the night sky. When you’re driving on a major road out on country, chances are you may be driving on an ...

Some 65,000 years ago, the native inhabitants of Australia developed a complex tool of communication — songlines, or “dreaming pathways” — not only as a means to map the histories and geographical ...

CANBERRA -- The message is stark and to the point: If you take our water, you kill our culture. If you kill our culture, you kill our people.

Among the traditional beliefs of the Aboriginal people who have inhabited Australia’s Northern Territory for at least 40,000 years, there is the particularly haunting notion that their ancestors sang ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. This article is more than 7 years old. In the Northern ...

Did you know that the ancient songlines telling the story of the landscape are still alive after tens of thousands of years?Many of the routes embedded in these songlines have turned into tracks and ...