Hi Brother, I am also Gammeraygal and a descendent of Bungaree, I am on the ACTU indigenous advisory committee, use to do aboriginal site officer gigs for warren and the Guringai tribal link back in the day and was a Aboriginal community liaison officer up in Kempsey when I was 20 in the Macleay valley shire council.

Jun 18, 2020· Time to protect Aboriginal heritage in NSW? The world watched on appalled by the actions of mining giant Rio Tinto and the Australian and Western Australian governments when the 46,000-year-old rock shelters in Western Australia’s Pilbara region were blown up last month.

A group of traditional custodians in New South Wales have renewed calls to protect their sacred sites following Rio Tinto's blasting of a 46,000-year-old site in the Pilbara last month.

He’s talking about 36,000-year-old grindstones discovered in New South Wales, used by Aboriginal Australians to turn seeds into flours for baking. That’s well ahead of other civilisations that ...

Aug 06, 2006· The surviving relics associated with Aboriginal campsites include seed grinding and axes sharpening grooves in rock slabs, cooking areas, and scatters containing various stone artefacts. Stone artefacts may be found as grave goods, especially axes, knives, seed grinders and other specialised tools.

Jun 16, 2020· Meet the people behind NSW's indigenous tours, listen to their stories and get a taste of experiences on offer, from trying traditional bush foods and making Aboriginal arts, crafts and tools, to ...

2pm: Tag on - Those wishing to visit Baiame (aboriginal Cave Painting in Wanaruah Country and Aboriginal grinding stones at another local property. More information: E [email protected] Parish Mass for the feast of St Patrick and Back to Singleton

Mar 09, 2020· To discover the ancient wonders of Mutawintji Historic Site, which boasts one of the best collections of Aboriginal art in NSW, it’s necessary to join a tour. You’ll learn all about the site’s history and culture on the guided 2-4 hour walk that wends through the ancient landscape.

Aboriginal heritage sites may include visible items like scar trees, tools, grinding grooves and flints. Other highly significance but less visible sites can include hearths (historic firepits), ochre quarries and unique landscape forms. Mythbusting. There are a number of myths and misconceptions around Aboriginal cultural values on farms.

Aboriginal and Historic Cultural Heritage Aboriginal grinding grooves, Belanglo State Forest. PROJECT EXAMPLES North West Rail Link historic-period heritage services Client: Baulderstone Pty Ltd (now Lend Lease) EMM was engaged by Baulderstone (now Lend Lease) on behalf of Transport for NSW …

Reminders of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders lifestyle, dating back 3,000 years, can still be found along the Georges River, Cooks River and other areas. These include rock and overhang paintings, stone scrapers, middens and axe grinding grooves.

The NSW Upper House has passed a motion calling for Aboriginal heritage sites in the state's north-west to be protected, throwing doubt on the viability of a proposed coal mine.

Aboriginal grinding grooves. Because Aboriginal people needed water to wet the surface of the softer rock when they sharpened their tools grinding grooves (top right) are usually found close to water. Axes were made of hard but smooth river stones, firmly fixed to …

More than 350 Aboriginal sites have been recorded in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. They include rock engravings, burial sites, axe grinding grooves and places that show evidence of Aboriginal occupation. For many visitors, these sites and other relics are the most visible reminders of the area's rich, living Aboriginal culture.

Oct 18, 2012 - Images from the Mari Nawi exhibition held at the State Library of New South Wales, 2010. See more ideas about New south wales, Aboriginal, Exhibition.

Grinding seeds into flour on the large stone slab (grindstone) was a hard physical task that would take about two hours to produce about a half kilogram of flour. Bread-cakes were baked in the ashes or on the hot charcoal of a campfire.

The grinding grooves are a type of Aboriginal site formed from aboriginals sharpening their axes, spears and even grinding seeds in this area. Grooving areas were often also a meeting site for other tribes, a chance to catch up on the gossip of the land.

Aboriginal axe grinding groove. Published August 25, 2011 at 600 × 394 in At The Beach – La Perouse photo gallery. Bookmark on Delicious ... Powerhouse Museum Telephone +61 (02) 9217 0111 500 Harris Street, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia [email protected]. The Migration Heritage Centre at the Powerhouse Museum is a NSW Government initiative ...

Learn about Aboriginal Artefacts Aboriginal art and artefact collecting goes back to early first contact times. In fact local Aboriginals around Sydney use to trade artefacts with visiting ships from the earliest days. Curio collecting has always been part of early exploration of the new world.

“NSW is a destination where Aboriginal culture is strong, vibrant and diverse. Across Sydney and Regional NSW, new tourism operators are taking tours to new locations and sharing the story of their people, language and cultural traditions as a way to educate visitors and locals.

Jan 26, 2019· A quiet change to Shenhua’s New South Wales planning conditions for its open-cut Watermark coalmine ... (ATSIHP) with the support of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council. ... two grinding …

The artefacts include stone axe heads and grinding implements as well as wooden boomerangs, clubs, shield and spearthrower as well as a fire drill set. In the main Banquet Hall at the Tenterfield School of Arts there is a commemorative display about the first official Welcome to Country in Tenterfield that happened in October 2008.

There are at least 240 axe grinding grooves of various shapes and sizes located within Terry Hie Hie Aboriginal Place. Both the corroboree ground and axe grinding grooves are evidence of the long-term use and occupation of the Terry Hie Hie area by Aboriginal people.

Jun 24, 2020· While some Aboriginal cultural heritage sites threatened by the Shenhua Watermark mine site on the Liverpool Plains in Gomeroi Country will now be shielded by a motion recently passed in the NSW ...

Seed grinding patches are areas of rock worn smooth by Aboriginal women grinding seeds. The women removed the husks, then placed the seeds (eg. acacia, grass, kurrajong and wattle) between a large flat rock and a smaller round rock. The seeds were then ground …

Aboriginal stone tools 5 Axe head stone tools from around southeast Australia. Photo – Australian Museum, Sydney. Seed grinding stone, NSW. National Museum of Australia Rock types used for tools that did not require a sharp edge could be sourced in many locations, e.g. creek beds, rock outcrops, beaches, etc. Hard rocks for

63,000 BCE. The exact arrival in people in Australia is unknown. However, 10,000 artefacts including 1,500 stone tools, a grinding stone and ground ochres recently discovered in the Madjedbebe rock shelter (previously known as Malakunanja) in Mirrarr Country, in Northern Arnhem Land provide evidence that Aboriginal peoples have been living here for many thousands of years.

The Protecting Our Places Grants Program is a contestable grants program for NSW Aboriginal community organisations and groups, seeking to achieve long-term beneficial outcomes for the NSW environment. Funded by the NSW Environmental Trust, the program empowers Aboriginal communities

Grinding stones are slabs of stone that Aboriginal people used to grind and crush different materials. Bulbs, berries, seeds, insects and many other things were ground between a large lower stone and a smaller upper stone. Where are they found? Grinding stones are usually found where Aboriginal people lived and camped.

Fragments of grinding stones dating back 30,000 years to late in the Pleistocene Epoch have been found at the archaeological site at Cuddie Springs in western NSW. Large grinding stones such as this one were designed to be left at a camp site for use the next time the group moved there. Smaller grinding stones were carried between sites.

In 21 libraries. Defines sacred site and gives the history and myths associated with sites on the northern coast of New South Wales; deals with the Northern Tablelands, Tweed Valley and Nightcap Ranges, Lower Richmond River, Clarence River, Corindi to the Nambucca Valley, Macleay River Valley, Hastings and Manning River Valleys; ritual sites; mythological sites; material culture and ...

- Narrandera, NSW: The grinding stone is the largest stone implement in the Aboriginal stone tool kit. The grinding stone above is at least 60cm by 30cm, and the top stones are approximately 10-15cms in diameter. It is made from a quarried slab of sandstone, but …

Archaeologists and Aboriginal people who worked with the project team discovered hammer stones, axes, stone tools, scarred trees, ceremonial sites, fire pits, open campsites, grinding grooves and artefact scatters. NSW Roads Minister Duncan Gay said more than 40 Aboriginal community groups were involved and it was one of the largest subsurface ...