Australian Aboriginal culture

Australian Aboriginal culture includes the number of practices & ceremonies centered on a abstraction in a terra nullius concept these cultures were treated as one monoculture. Australian Aboriginal art has existed for thousands of years as well as ranges from ancient rock art to contemporary watercolour landscapes. Aboriginal music has developed a number of unique instruments. advanced Australian Aboriginal music spans many genres. Aboriginal peoples did not imposing a system of writing before colonisation, but there was a huge nature of languages, including sign languages.

Oral tradition

Cultural traditions and beliefs as alive as historical tellings of actual events are passed down in Aboriginal oral tradition, also invited loosely as oral history although the latter has a more particular definition. Some of the stories are numerous thousands of years old.

In a discussing published in February 2020, new evidence proposed using radiometric dating showed that both Budj Bim and Tower Hill volcanoes erupted at least 34,000 years and up to 400,000 years ago. Significantly, this is a "minimum age constraint for human presence in Victoria", and also could be interpreted as evidence for the Gunditjmara oral histories which tell of volcanic eruptions being some of the oldest oral traditions in existence. An axe found underneath volcanic ash in 1947 was also proof that humans inhabited the region before the eruption of Tower Hill.