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At 09:19 PM 7/03/02 +0000, you wrote:
Snip........
>I have a little sympathy with your point of view, though my knowledge comes
>only from books and documentaries, and not much of them either. From what i
>understand, they did not really catch on to the idea of armed resistance
>that other cultures did, such as the North Americans and the South African
>etc, indigenous populations.
An interesting point Steve
Records show that there was more resistance than we have been led to
believe. However, it does seem a) that there were few instances of the use
of firearms by Australian peoples until after the conquest, and b) they
fought within their Law, which allowed only for pay-back killings and not
the punitive expeditions that were mounted against them. They therefore
lost their numbers due to inferior weapons and superior morals.
Jeremy
>
>I did note that IIRC (now i know what it means!), that New Scientist did an
>article about how the first evidence of cave art can be found in Australia,
>and that it also depicts a boat. I can't check this as i don't subscribe to
>NS, and i can't check my files at the moment as i don't have acopy of
>Appleworks to decode my files. Sorry.
>
>Regards
>
>Steve
Yes Steve
As I have been saying to Vincent, the cave art is a significant record. The
painting you refer to recorded the passing of Mathew Flinders' voyage of
circumnavigation. A voyage commemorating the bicentenary of this event left
Sydney yesterday.
Cheers
Jeremy
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