I'm aborignal Australian & I am beyond grateful for this information, makes me feel proud.

@Ella-gg5fi

3 жыл бұрын

Your culture is so fascinating! You should be proud. I wished we learnt more about it in school.

@lanalytch

3 жыл бұрын

As you have every right to ❤❤❤

@Shadey485

3 жыл бұрын

Ditto!

@davieskunda6748

3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations 🎉

@sunshineimperials1600

3 жыл бұрын

You have beautiful curly hair.

you forgot the bit where the aboriginal fire use early on made australia a desert in the first place.

I'm aboriginal and I knew some of this because of my grandma, idk why we don't learn about it in school we only know about dream time. Thanks bala

@julianshepherd2038

3 жыл бұрын

The government would be teaching that they had stolen what they have.

@xx_julia_xx-_-9658

3 жыл бұрын

I am tho

@kazpaapzak8637

3 жыл бұрын

In VCE outdoor ed we learn about this. I don’t think we should blame the government for not teaching this, the lack of knowledge in this area is only a racist scar from European ‘colonisation’.

@abstractmuffin7129

3 жыл бұрын

i had some pretty good elders around where i was that came to our schools who told us stuff like the abouriginal season's and dance's but it was alway's optional and never assigned to history/geography sadly

@leonardojodeteperra1767

3 жыл бұрын

Aw woopty fuckin doo

I'm an Australian history major and knew exactly where you sourced all of this from as I watched it. I'm impressed - most KZreadrs pull their videos from their arses. You got an instant sub from me.

@theantitheocrat6232

3 ай бұрын

Do tell. Where from?

@arthurdent6828

Ай бұрын

​@@theantitheocrat6232Are you in Australia? Try the state library where ever you are and read the journals of all the early explorers. That's the source. Journals that were published over 150 years ago.

I'm Australian and they don't even give this stuff a passing mention in history class but hey great video 👍🏻

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Nice to hear an Australian perspective. Hopefully, more and more stuff about this will come out in the future and we can all learn more :D Thanks for watching.

@unholydemigod4147

5 жыл бұрын

@@CogitoEdu All we really get at school is a little bit of Dreamtime stuff and dot painting, then it's all about how the colonisation. Australian history at school is so fucking boring.

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

That's unfortunate. At least the internet is here to offer you what school couldn't :D

@deborah-maytorrens6278

5 жыл бұрын

Yes "uninspired Squirt Gun". This is why it is up to us as "We the People" to bring these facts to our Nation so our tourists, visitors and guests can all be in-knowledge of the true history of our Nation and the Original Peoples thereof.

@aaronpaglinawan8088

5 жыл бұрын

I always wonder how australian immigrants were taught about history. xD

The parallels to American Indians is actually a bit surprising to me. They also dramatically altered the landscape.

@ThisisBarris

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I remember reading that the introduction of smallpox by Europeans could have lead to a small ice age as trees grew back in the Americas, but I haven't verified the veracity of that claim.

@Giaayokaats

5 жыл бұрын

Mr. Beat, can you please do a video on Indigenous agriculture in North America? I feel like it's a woefully neglected subject

@Roblox2025

5 жыл бұрын

Are you referring to the native Americans in the United States remember there were under 2 million native Americans in the us before Europeans came

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

There were upwards of 50 million rather than 2 million.

@Giaayokaats

5 жыл бұрын

@@CogitoEdu That's a (lowball) number for the Americas in their entirety. Roblox2025 That's an outdated number from a time when the Americas were only thought to have had 10-20 million people. It is widely recognized today as being woefully low. The numbers I've seen for the territories that now constitute the United States of America tend to fall in the 8-12 million range, while most estimate today put the range for the Americas as a whole in the 80-100 million range.

"They knew all along what these structures were, but had never been asked". Literally every interactions between natives & colonists.

@orkadian4173

2 жыл бұрын

And a false rhetoric by certain current activists trying to re-write history!

@Ttegegg

2 жыл бұрын

@@orkadian4173 by who?

@orkadian4173

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ttegegg I do not reply to people who can't use their own name!

@aurelian2668

6 ай бұрын

@@orkadian4173 Orkadian is your real name? What a weird name.

@orkadian4173

6 ай бұрын

@@aurelian2668Aurelian isn't your real name? How unusual..

My experience as an Australian here. I remember reading an encyclopedia from the 1970s about Australia. It barely mentions the Aboriginals, mentioning them as a 'stone age people' who lived in Australia before the British arrived and then ignoring them. In high school history classes we only hear about Aboriginals in the context of colonization and modern times. In primary school we learned some things about Aborignal mythology (the Dreamtime) and art (dot painting). But their history before 1788 is a huge blindspot in our education system, and I guess this is how you still get people imagining Aboriginals as a 'stone age people' who acheived nothing before the British arrived. We definitely never learned anything about Aboriginal agriculture.

@matthewmalpeli

4 жыл бұрын

That was a very convenient description based entirely on the British need to declare this land Terra Nulius so their sheep farmers could take advantage of the high market price for wool. The stupidity of short term profit knows no limit, does it?

@alexdunphy3716

4 жыл бұрын

They were stone age people tho, whether or not you think they should be admired or not

@MrAlexkyra

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexdunphy3716 'stone age people' comes without a lot of prejudiced notions about whether certain people are more 'primitive' or 'advanced'. It's a very narrow minded way of looking at things. And in any case, my point was more that the phrase 'stone age people' was all that the encyclopedia had to say for the Aboriginals before moving on and pretending they don't exist. Even today we have politicians claiming Australia was a 'wilderness' before the British arrived, an argument very similar to that used to justify the invasion, dispossession and genocide of Aboriginals in the past. As this video, and the work of historians show, this was completely false. Aboriginals managed and cultivated their land in a deliberate way, albeit very different from people on other continents.

@MrAlexkyra

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexdunphy3716 additionaly, describing a people as 'stone age' can be technically correct but still very narrow minded and prejudicial. For example you could say that the Aztecs and Maya were stone age people, since their weapons technology consisted od wood, stone and obsidian. But this would overlook their other great achievements in monument construction, mathematics, astronomy and hydrology (Aztecs). They certainly weren't equivalent to hunter gatherers. Calling Aboriginals stone age may reflect their technology, but might lead one to dismiss their agriculture, land and ecosystem management

@MrAlexkyra

4 жыл бұрын

@@scottleft3672 Terra Nullius had nothing to do with the Cold War. The British colonized all of Australia by the early 19th century, claiming all the land regardless of the fact it was already owned by the numerous Aboriginal nations. The British tested nuclear weapons in Aboriginal land in South Australia (Maralinga) but this wasn't the origin of Terra Nullius.

I mean, who ISN'T glistening with moth fat these days?

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Moth Fat! Coming to a store near you. Unleash your glisten.

@apersonlikeanyother6895

4 жыл бұрын

Mr. Beat best comment!

@campbellmanderson943

4 жыл бұрын

Sugar gliders I think.

@MatthewSmith-sz1yq

4 жыл бұрын

Can confirm, to great surprise, that moth fat is a resource that has not yet been exploited, as it does not seem to be for sale anywhere on the internet.

@jamesmiddleson1849

4 жыл бұрын

@@MatthewSmith-sz1yq the internet only know what we put on it. Maybe u can get it somewhere!

I'm aboriginal and highly APPRECIATE and RESPECT this video for being created as it is information like this that helps to protect and prolong the cultures survival within this day and age. Everything is precise in this video and you have done a tremendous job to represent just how in tune with the land our ancestors were and still are. Thanks bruz [-o-]

@jenwalsh4195

2 жыл бұрын

Its a great little video! I watched it because this is how I mostly learn about aboriginal history and culture. My family are wongaibon people but I have no connection with a culture I admire and wish I was a part of. My grandfather was stolen along with his 2 sisters. I didnt learn of this untill after his passing, when great aunty Esme found us. We have no connection to our roots. And it's saddening that I'm not the only one missing out. Keep the culture alive and share as much as you can! My kids learn what they can from school because I cant teach them. We need more indigenous education and community involvement to make sure no more knowledge is lost!

@jamesspacer7994

2 жыл бұрын

How many % aboriginal are you? You look white to me.

@kumarvikramaditya9636

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesspacer7994 how much percent human are you. You sound like a racist bot.

@kiraalksne4180

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesspacer7994 plenty of people that pass as ''white''. You look ignorant

@joepetto9488

2 жыл бұрын

You arent aboriginal, your aboriginal "ancestry" is likely from some bush girl abducted by a power Celtic bushranger warrior, you're 95% European and your parents were smart enough (european trait) to realize they could get some serious gibs if they pretend to be aboriginals.

I can't help but snicker at the map at 3:31... do you think he knew what he drew? He knew.

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

He definitely knew!

@charlottesky4253

5 жыл бұрын

It’s a map of all the tribes and clans. He didn’t draw it.

@icry2u

5 жыл бұрын

@@charlottesky4253 I think they mean Tyndale's grain belt map.

@charlottesky4253

5 жыл бұрын

icry2u my bad all I saw was the tribal map. I know that map because I’m aboriginal and my family is Wailwan, Kamilaroi. Much love x

@aussieatheist960

4 жыл бұрын

Bit of a dick move huh!

I'm Australian and thank you for making this video man. I am not Indigenous myself but so many old and young people know next to nothing of indigenous cultures, their history and our history with them. When I was growing up we had a Labor government in power, Labor has always tried to teach the history of Indigenous people's in public schools as a mandatory part of the curriculum, so I learnt about them. Shortly after I left school, however, a Liberal government came in (they're actually a conservative party despite the name) and they removed the subject from the curriculum entirely, mainly because their party were/still continue to be the architects of the vast majority of atrocities committed against Indigenous Australians, and our history of institutionalised racism vis a vis the White Australia Policy and the Stolen generation, etc. To this day our Indigenous communities in Australia have never recovered from these atrocities and white Australians beliefs are still heavily shaped by the societal conditioning that they were subjected to throughout the time these policies were being implemented, and they still hold on to their beliefs of Indigenous Australians being drunken layabouts, even my own parents do, and unfortunately many of those older people have passed those beliefs onto their children, many of whom don't know better because we are no longer educated about their history and our "interaction" with them. I hope more young Australians watch this video and realise that indigenous Australians were far more sophisticated than they had ever realised. A proud culture that has barely survived numerous attempts at genocide, whether by outright massacre, genetic replacement or cultural destruction. We put the original custodians of this land into the situation they're currently in, we need to take responsibility and actually allow indigenous Australians a platform to actually tell us what would help them. THAT is one thing any country with a downtrodden native population should do to help, just listen to them. Edit: if you want evidence of how shamelessly and unabashedly racist some of my fellow Aussies are then read the replies.

@callumcox6421

4 жыл бұрын

Too right man, great comment bro. I'm from Ireland but my cousin is a police officer in Darwin and I've never met a more openly racist man in my life. He despises aborigines and isn't quiet about how he feels.... And i doubt his views are rare at all for Australian police. He goes on and on about how aborigines are lowly drunks who scrounge from the government and breach the peace, but even if they are there should be some government programme to help these poor folks who have been pushed into a life of alcoholism and drug addiction by past generations of Europeans... Educate don't discriminate..

@reverentlygrim2666

4 жыл бұрын

@@callumcox6421 That is wrong on so many levels. kudos to you man.

@4kdefinition70

4 жыл бұрын

Callum Cox they have dozens of programs and aids to help them succeed, yet they squalor, this doesn’t mean their history is tainted, just certain individuals taint their present. I grew up in the region and I met the good and bad of the aboriginal people, I guarantee their isn’t nearly enough good ones for my liking. They have other history that would make you shudder

@Ryan-qx4wh

4 жыл бұрын

@@4kdefinition70 I can already tell you're a weak closet racist grub

@RictusHolloweye

4 жыл бұрын

@@4kdefinition70 - The results are not pretty, but they basically come from trying to apply European solutions to aborigine situations. I know, I know, "White guilt!". But if more research and more thinking were put into the situation maybe we don't have to throw money at aborigines and, instead, find a solution that actually works.

Interesting presentation. Aboriginals are definitely among the most ignored groups in history! I was passingly aware of some agricultural practices, but no where near to this extent! Might aboriginals have been the oldest agriculturalists on the planet?

@ComaToast1

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for acknowledging

@nevillelamberti

4 жыл бұрын

No. If that was true then the aboriginal population would have been significantly larger than it was when Europeans brought modern agricultural technology to the region. I suppose that you also believe the one about the whales or do you suck all of the drivvel in ?

@TT.STAY.

4 жыл бұрын

Neville Lamberti it is true. Don’t you know they were massacred by the Europeans. Their population were reduced.

@andrewlove3686

4 жыл бұрын

@@TT.STAY. the only place these people(Australoid race) still exist is where europeans found them before asian mongoloids did.

@timomastosalo

4 жыл бұрын

My guess is more like people have maintained the nature since the beginning. It's just that with long existence in the same environment made people to become experts to coexist the preserving way - all the more, when the environment was somewhat fragile. In a lush environment, the demands for maintenance were not that great.

Very interesting, I learned a lot, did not know 85-90% of this. Loved the animations. This video, the Hatshepsut and the chocolate video are my 3 favorites you have made :)

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah before I started the research for this I was unaware of all this cool info. Happy to hear they're your favourites, especially the chocolate one. That one was my favourite to make :D

@bamchikawahwah86

4 жыл бұрын

Im Australian and have great respect for aboriginal culture and i can say this video is quite sensationalized and interpreted with a bias. He said "They were seen cutting the stalks in large open fields" that does not prove agriculture. Aboriginals were certainly nomadic and hunter gatherers. They would forage in large quantities when that particular food was in season.

@jemedsall2367

4 жыл бұрын

@@bamchikawahwah86 Go read the sources mate. Dark Emu, Greatest Estate on Earth are both linked in the description. You don't know what you're talking about.

@bamchikawahwah86

4 жыл бұрын

@@jemedsall2367 yeah mate they're just more assumptions based off the evidence we have. Just because they burnt off the land doesn't make them farmers. The evidence is nowhere near strong enough. More likely they were systematic hunter gatherers, going with the seasons while living off the land. For 60000 years. I'm not surprised some areas "appeared" to be "farmed"... it's not exactly agriculture like we know it

@bamchikawahwah86

4 жыл бұрын

@Jim lastname no it means they were nomadic hunters and gatherers

A huge rewrite of history,I was expecting the magical serpent to appear

@ryan-ci9sl3mt3j

3 ай бұрын

It is wrong to say Aboriginals "made" Australia. They made Yuggera, Biripi, Woiworung etc. It's like saying the United States was made by Native Americans.

@rohanindra6401

2 ай бұрын

Labels change the land mass stays the same

there a lot of assertions here in this video but precious little Scientific evidence offered

@user-jk8ur7sj3t

26 күн бұрын

He has a list of references

@johnathanmagliari8461

7 күн бұрын

He listed a whole bunch of references, quotes from early settlers, research studies, and added both new and old pictures of those stone structures and altered landscape. I am sorry to say that it appears as though your bias outlook is making blind to scientific findings and facts.

As an Australian, you never learn stuff like this, I have a new found love for both your channel and the native culture if Australia

@dawniebee946

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing isn't it? I don't know how it ties in with the infant mortality rates & evidence of malnutrition. Something doesn't add up.

@blackhawk8920

2 жыл бұрын

@@dawniebee946 it is proto farming less reliable.

@meditationmusicau

Жыл бұрын

We learn about the Vietnam war than our country.

@jeromeisaacs4428

Жыл бұрын

They built an alliance with Killer Whales this is incredible to me

@fluchtigziege3202

7 ай бұрын

you dont learn it cos it never happened.

G'day mate, I just wanted to say I love your work and this video was so interesting to learn about my home country and our rich history of our sacred people. Keep up the good work mate.

Bruh why aren’t we learning this in school as an Australian I would love to learn more about the people before us

@playboicartiismydad4842

4 жыл бұрын

@Trousersnake Pliskin Facts hurt your feelings?

@playboicartiismydad4842

4 жыл бұрын

@Trousersnake Pliskin All the sources are in the description buddy this is the consensus of the academic community who has researched this thing if you want to keep denying reality feel free.

@qwertqwert414

3 жыл бұрын

Trousersnake Pliskin did you not watch the video, or read any of the academic articles or books which were sourced?

@marcomaddox

3 жыл бұрын

@Trousersnake Pliskin This is an affront to your racist view of the world.Sorry for ruining your fantasy.

@richlisola1

3 жыл бұрын

How should KZread know? Write your government and educators

It's actually messed up how History education here in Australia didnt teach us about this and its always making Aboriginals as stone age people and the lost generation

@someones5551

3 жыл бұрын

That's because this is factually incorrect

@laurensahanna5826

3 жыл бұрын

@@someones5551 got any evidence?

@medieeevil3697

3 жыл бұрын

@Dan Quayles ITS SPELT POTATOE! I’d hate to be a virgin like you

@onyabike4205

3 жыл бұрын

they are stone age people, 40,000 years and all they invented was a stick.... reality doesnt care about your feelings sorry

@medieeevil3697

3 жыл бұрын

@@onyabike4205 faaaaarrrrk up

Reminds me of the "legend" of how the Amazon Rainforest was actually a garden. The trees and plants were planted by an extinct tribe that once were regarded for building massive structures made of branches and sticks. The jungle that the Amazon has become was due to this garden being left unattended by those who planted it, like the ruins of a lost civilization.

@--Paws--

3 жыл бұрын

​@Jeremy Kirkpatrick It was briefly mentioned on show on either the History Channel or Discovery Channel, years ago. I have been searching for a copy of that video in KZread but gave up. I have ended up going to videos that relate to indigenous tribes or mentions what I can only remember yet no one has so far. There might be some in depth lecture about it but have not encountered it.

@LancesArmorStriking

3 жыл бұрын

@@--Paws-- There's also a Joe Rohan podcast on it (of course)

@Rafael_Mena_Ill

2 жыл бұрын

There was civilization in the Amazons, and the massive structures were mounds, not made of "branches and sticks. The Ancient America's youtube channel just made a video on the subject a week ago, check that out instead of Joe Rogan or the History Channel.

@malum9478

2 жыл бұрын

@@LancesArmorStriking no thanks lol

@LancesArmorStriking

2 жыл бұрын

@@malum9478 Talk about judging a book by its cover

Hey! I’m so happy to see my culture being represented on KZread!!! I’m from the Ngunnawal tribe and it’s pronounced none-a-wall Thank you!! 😊

@charki40

4 жыл бұрын

Ngatta (greetings) my kin. Im Gunditjmara (SW Vic) and yeah, he acknowledged he butchered the pronunciations of nations. He gave it a go...lol. Love the video too. Glad to see our history being told finally. Hope your well. Wurruk. (bye)

@seanowens3153

23 күн бұрын

shame most of its misinformation.

All ancient groups of people knew their land well. I am surprised to see that so many people did not know about the information in this video.

@mehere8038

2 жыл бұрын

It was deliberately suppressed though & "terra nulla" was the official line

Love the video as I am a Aboriginal here I didn't even know about the fish traps lol thanks!

@ComaToast1

4 жыл бұрын

True my bra we got some deadly history that goes deeper then just this be proud.

@moi7107

4 жыл бұрын

@@ComaToast1 yes you guys are deadly chur

@ComaToast1

4 жыл бұрын

@@moi7107 so is the Maoris much respect to all my brother s and sisters, uncle and aunties

@moi7107

4 жыл бұрын

@@ComaToast1 chur my bro mad respect for my deadly brothers and sisters Kotahitanga/Unity

@wingsofsuspensionlifts6814

4 жыл бұрын

looks up Pemulwuy... guy was a beast.. I've heard stories aboriginals use to carry snakes/frogs and spiders around with them? is that true?

This video, and the one about Potatoes saving the world, made me feel so sad. When the conquerors come in and destroy cultures, they lose SO much. The world loses so much.

@jjk087

4 жыл бұрын

Like what? Sticks?

@overbeb

4 жыл бұрын

@@jjk087 More like sustainable agriculture and land management that doesn't deplete soil fertility.

@brodiekeown4494

3 жыл бұрын

yeah....who needs advanced society when you could have ground moth paste for dinner and a life expectancy no higher than 30.....

@MrCmon113

3 жыл бұрын

@Pyotr V ... he wrote on his computer sitting in a nice heated room.

@patbingsoo5219

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrCmon113 How does this imply that he needs advanced society? That argument is not well formed at all.

This video has done a justice to my people’s history all my life I’ve been told of what my people used to do before the British Empire arrived and now seeing it Animated and on KZread my favourite website had made my heart jump with Joy. Thank you mate my people are the Ngarigo one of the Alp tribes that was described as “Glistening” after they had their moth buffets 🥰 something my Grandmother never told me about the moth hunts

@klenovyysirop12

4 жыл бұрын

@The Purple Helicopter Moth Hunt?

@SundariAtari

4 жыл бұрын

@@klenovyysirop12 6:50 explains the moth hunt

@nevillelamberti

4 жыл бұрын

Pop another cap mate. Having a trippy day are you ?

@klenovyysirop12

4 жыл бұрын

@@nevillelamberti Do you think they hunt moths? Like the little bugs? With a bow and arrow?

@user-ed9qu5im2y

4 жыл бұрын

@@klenovyysirop12 someone literally linked you to the relevant part of the video -_-

Thank you for this! Awareness of the achievements of earlier cultures has been ignored for too long. Living in Micronesia for the last 25 years, I am frequently surprised at the technical achievements of these peoples that are being swept under the rug of "history." Your point about how we need to learn how our ancestors managed their world is of increasing importance, as we run into our failures as stewards.

This is true my tribal land has been growing back with traditional land management while the Aussie farmers land near us is a barren dust bowl 😂.

@barrymcfuzz7102

4 жыл бұрын

thats incredible hopefully the traditional methods will be accepted again so the land can grow healthy again

@omarduncan4904

4 жыл бұрын

@Ibroxeagle May i ask why he is an idiot?

@autumnhomer9786

4 жыл бұрын

TheBadassPatrol I’m glad these Ancient farming techniques have not been lost.

@Chopperdog

4 жыл бұрын

@@autumnhomer9786 if you want to learn more about accent farming look up Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe on KZread he shares a lot of info about how Australia was before the English invasion.

@Chopperdog

4 жыл бұрын

@@barrymcfuzz7102 Most Australians are to ignorant to learn how to manage the land they have no connection with it they blame us for burning Australia but most of the county was a huge grain field look up Dark Emu on KZread you will be shocked want we had going on here for thousands of years.

1:25 the pain of all history youtubers.

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Why didn't more people get high quality portraits made of themselves. Honestly it's just rude and coincident to people like us :D

I love your snobby accents when quoting the colonizers. Brilliant.

@joepetto9488

2 жыл бұрын

Do you see european conquerors and adventurers as naturally greater than yourself or is that a complex or something?

@kathrynrouse6549

2 жыл бұрын

😁TRUE!

@urmum3773

2 жыл бұрын

Political comment alert

@exacerbatedfellow1236

Жыл бұрын

Those snobs dominated inferior civilizations, but yeah some online commentator mocking it will show them.

The Bush tomato is definitely not dependant on people to survive, grows like crazy and is near impossible to kill. Also one of the most bitter things I have ever eaten, makes moth cakes seem tasty.

We brought a European land management that wasn't in Europe or with a climate like the northern hemisphere. So obviously this didn't work. We also cleared massive amounts of forest on the east coast for grazing.

@stsk1061

3 жыл бұрын

What do you mean it didn't work? Today, Australia produces like 100 times the amount of food it did before.

@alt4374

2 жыл бұрын

@@stsk1061 Yeah and it's not sustainable. Now you're dependent on an agricultural system that can't continue indefinitely without completing destroying your home. Not very smart

@alt4374

2 жыл бұрын

@@stsk1061 Not only that, but how many species have had to go extinct, how heavily has biodiversity suffered, making Australia EVEN MORE vulnerable to the oncoming effects of climate change

@stsk1061

2 жыл бұрын

@@alt4374 Why is it not sustainable?

@joepetto9488

2 жыл бұрын

Australia is also much wealthier today than under the aboriginals.

Why was the population so low pre contact then?

Native Americans were similarly effective farmers before the arrival of Columbus.

@gayvideos3808

4 жыл бұрын

And after. Traditional agricultural methods were still dominant until the 20th century

@RubyDoobieScoo

2 жыл бұрын

They even had walled towns despite the depictions of them always being in tents.

@alt4374

2 жыл бұрын

@@RubyDoobieScoo And the Cahokia mounds, and tons of cities

@AnimeArchaeologist

2 жыл бұрын

Native Filipinos have always been effective farmers regardless of the Spanish.

@RubyDoobieScoo

2 жыл бұрын

@KZreads lame Garcia weird flex but okay

Videos like this are super important to counter the narrative of "primitive" indigenous peoples. Really great vid!

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

I believe the same thing. There is still so much untouched information about indigenous cultures and a lot of it is facinating.

@Giaayokaats

5 жыл бұрын

The amazing thing is that the evidence of the cultural sophistication of Indigenous peoples isn't too hard to come by in the primary record. Unfortunately, the secondary record tends to be tainted by the frontier myth...

@shanekonarson

4 жыл бұрын

Depends on how we define “ primitive “ ? If we look at today’s world . Primitivism is a good thing . It’s sustainable at it gets , in Ever aspect of human life ., aboriginal people were still semi nomadic. Which leaves any damage done time to repair and replenish. In comparison to so called “ western farming methods “ which actually originated in the Middle East . Staying in one place isn’t sustainable . A sustainable hunter gatherer/ semi agrarian culture such as The aboriginal one was good for their health also , because the process of natural selection still worked effectively, IE if times were lean , birth rates would be low . Little to no famines like farming cultures . No need for armies to protect grain stores etc , no need for kings queens and no over population due to agrarian society being labor intensive.

@nevillelamberti

4 жыл бұрын

@@shanekonarson I would suggest that you stop trying to sound learned. You have just shown what low intellect you have by the drivvel that you have written.

@juanguzman9031

4 жыл бұрын

@@warwicklewis8735 you do know Europeans barely lived to forty at that time too right? And at that time Europe suffered more because they were still dependent on one crop, it wasn't until after they took crops from the Americas they were able to feed everyone. I don't know If you are just talking about the aborigines but Aztecs had plumbing before Europeans so it is not a myth.

I told this to my science teacher and he said the reason we don’t know this is becuase the British wanted to think that aboriginals were cavemen so that it would be ok to steal there stuf

@Elephantgamer-bq7gs

3 жыл бұрын

@Jamie there is a bit of a problem with figuring out where aboriginals were in terms of technology because there were so many different tribes. Some were better then others, also about the whole fighting over cigarettes thing is there evidence that they used to fight over food if there is please let me know because I’m very curious about it so I personally think it’s because after colonisation they got left on the streets, then like homeless people do they got themselves drugged up and started acting like homeless people, I think the solution to that is give them there own independent state that they get to take care of like in the old days

@crystalwolcott4744

3 жыл бұрын

@Jamie Explain this to me like I'm an American.

@InterpolBulliedMe

3 жыл бұрын

@Jamie you're a racist pos I hope you know that.

@arthurdent6828

Ай бұрын

​@@Elephantgamer-bq7gsAs with all humans there were a few asshole tribes and they did have their wars. But mostly they were fairly amicable.

Bravo! A much needed counterblast to the myth that the native Australians were uncultured primitives - a narrative that was very convenient to the colonialists and is still used to salve our consciences for the unthinkable damage we caused to their society.

@ACBmonkey

2 жыл бұрын

Also to continue the oppression.

@Cecilia-ky3uw

Жыл бұрын

except a major part of the reason why australia is so barren is due to native burning, yeah harming natives was wrong, but the natives weren't saints and we should not consider them saints

@tullochgorum6323

Жыл бұрын

@@Cecilia-ky3uw They didn't make it "barren" - they managed the environment to make it more productive for human habitation. Like we do with our field systems. I don't see how that makes them sinners, as you claim.

@Cecilia-ky3uw

Жыл бұрын

@@tullochgorum6323 by burning down forests, they are one of the culprits of the deaths of much flora and fauna, and australia may have become a second united states had it not been so damn barren

@tullochgorum6323

Жыл бұрын

@Berle Juice What world do you live in? You need to open your eyes to reality, my friend.

I migrated to Australia in 2000 and I’ve never heard of the majority of the information in this video, thank you for making this.

@fluchtigziege3202

7 ай бұрын

well now you are dumber having heard it, there is a reason you didnt hear about it, because its a complete load of piss

@sandponics

5 ай бұрын

I migrated from England to Australia in 1981, but I left the blue wode and my cloth cap and clogs behind, and bought an Akubra hat.

Under their management you wouldn't have the sad tragedy that is raging across Aus now.

@orkadian4173

2 жыл бұрын

What a leap of faith that statement is. We have the current situation because we have people wanting to live on the fringe in predominantly Eucalypt forests, and not clear the accumulation of fire loading every year or so to prevent bushfires. Plus our 'Greens' have prevented hazard reduction burns for so long it has come back to burn us, literally.

@StuffandThings_

2 жыл бұрын

@@orkadian4173 Well... did you watch the video? Precisely _because_ they were careful, the land was well managed and burned frequently to rejuvenate it. And they created lots of productive pastureland, perfect for habitation. Reinstating such management probably would help.

@orkadian4173

2 жыл бұрын

@@StuffandThings_ That's the problem you don't get! The video is the re-writing. Grow up until you have some form of REAL counter! I have studied this for years. and it has been dumbed down since 1980! Why?! Because the Mabo otcome suggested we need to look at reality differently! Why? Because it means money and power to certain people. Do som REAL research prior to 1980...

@arthurdent6828

Ай бұрын

​​@@orkadian41731980. Wrong. For atarters the Mabo decision was 92 and this had been documented about 150 years before then. Are you suggesting the journals of various explorers published in the mid to late 19th century were false? Gee. It's a pity we named so many rivers,deserts and other geographical features after such liars isn't it? SMH. Read a book.

@orkadian4173

29 күн бұрын

@@arthurdent6828 Where do you get YOUR books. Try Non-Fiction!

I really hesitate about using the word "agriculture" or "farmers". Did they use extensive irrigation? Practice extensive monoculture? Run large surpluses? Extensively use domesticated animals? Then that's agriculture and they were farmers. It sounds, though, like they understood their ecology deeply and how to leverage it minimally. They used swidden burning techniques, had some favored cereals but grew many different plants, and didn't use domestic animals. They ran small surpluses. This sounds like a complex form of permacultural horticulture, which is still very impressive. They managed to have legit early-cities. I am curious about how big their populations actually managed to be consistently. But it does sound like they practiced horticulture, not agriculture, and were gardeners, not farmers. This may be pedantic/semantic, but the distinction is important and has large implications for how they organized their societies.

@91bpatrick

Жыл бұрын

Their populations were estimated to be roughly one to two million people by colonials and they predominately lived in the south eastern corner where most people do today; and if you think about it - - that somewhat makes sense considering the hostility of the landscape, the little to no fattiness of meats from animals; the most fatty being kangaroo and crocodiles (that only live in the north). The fruits, vegetables, and grains were also not entirely filling. Have you ever eaten a lilli pilli? Our modern fruits are genetically modified which is why they appear the way they do but most fruits originally had enormous seeds and aboriginals did not genetically modify foods. This minimal amount nutrition explains why their people were at consistent war with one another, having over 250 tribes and languages and also different tribes "owning" different parts of the land meant resources were scarce and worth fighting for... where I live, for example, it is extremely arid and dry, then rains in Jan - March and is abundant in life; they would have only come here during that time, then retreated elsewhere. Also consider some certain species only grow after bushfires, too. This is why their peoples were nomadic and travelled for resources and traded with one another oftentimes but I guess like all nations on earth if a trade couldn't be settled then a fight was the last resort.

@arthurdent6828

Ай бұрын

Well they domesticated dingoes which helped to hunt. They grew grain in lake beds. Some areas did yield massive surplus as described by a number of explorers journals. The extensive fish/eel trap systems in a number of places where eel was smoked and traded across vast distances. There was no need to domesticate kangaroo which thrived in the pastures they created and burnt for the purpose of providing meat. I don't get why people doubt the systems they had simply because it doesn't resemble how Europeans did things. But anyway, that ticks a number of your boxes.

Thanks for the video, as recently as this year (2019) a Victorian Indigenous aquaculture site has been listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, and funds are going towards building a potential visitor centre. It's estimated the site is about 6,600 years old.

This is fascinating. Thanks so much for sharing

Thank you so much for this I love learning about indigenous people

I’m amazed that a lot of this information can be found in the Melbourne museum’s aboriginal and Pacific Islander exhibits. It’s not really common for me to find high quality videos going into detail on how aboriginal cultures thrived in pre-colonial times.

this will help with my assignment thank u so much ! such a well written and made video haha

@biragaba

3 жыл бұрын

What did you write in your assignment ?

Encouraging natural plants to continue growing to monoplise an area is not the same as farming. But hey spin it however you can.

@tredwayjack5189

27 күн бұрын

What would you call it then, if not a type of farming

I learned A LOT from this video. Thank you VERY MUCH for your great work and research!

Awesome video on a super interesting and overlooked topic! Also loved the prophecy of WHALEY BOY

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

ALL HAIL THE WHALE

@steveboy7302

5 жыл бұрын

what about whale rider

@ripme6616

4 жыл бұрын

There's more to that story look up Davidson family whaling in Eden

@ganjalfthegreen5312

4 жыл бұрын

Thought about triggerly puff immediately

I'm an australian, I have recently finished learning Australian history through school. We do not acknowledge any of this This does not mean that I don't believe the video. I think my experience will add to the argument

@gratscott5632

3 жыл бұрын

@čp i did learn a little about the genocides in year 11 however that was not part of my course, it was an extra expansion bit that we did to understand a novel that discussed the genocide. Just an update

@marcomaddox

3 жыл бұрын

Read Bruce Pascoes "Dark Emu" it documents through the diaries of the first explorers' eyes and writings = credible witnesses. It will amaze you.

@anugranmathimugan2778

3 ай бұрын

@@marcomaddox And Bruce got pilloried for it , not sure why there are so many in our country want to maintain the image of indigenous folk not capable of anything apart from hunter gatherers .

I Appreciate the care and respect that went into this video on a historically neglected people in a pretty forgotten corner of the world. Cheers mate

@sandponics

5 ай бұрын

You will eat your words, once Australia becomes the world's most advanced society.

Thanks for this video😁👌🏽 much love and respect.

What's wrong with being hunter-gatherers?

Yeah so I’m Australian and they don’t teach much of this stuff in school, maybe dream time stuff when we’re young but nothing like this, good job man

@Drskopf

4 жыл бұрын

The life of Aboriginal Australian It has remarkable similarities with the natives from North and South American , if you can read all this stuff on this book. 1491 before Christopher Columbus. Author Charles Mann, the Caucasian race living in those land as should be more humble and finally embrace the local culture that survived for thousands of years adapting to its environment

@matthewmalpeli

4 жыл бұрын

One of the few aspects of aboriginal culture I learned as a child in Perth was their connection to the land and the care they once put into it. Now, I know the why for this emphasis. Suddenly, it all makes a whole lot of sense. The injustice of Australian colonisation was nothing short of a continent wide vandalism. This continent is a crime scene. I feel sick by what they did and continue to do to indigenous Australians.

@matthewmalpeli

4 жыл бұрын

@Jarrod Maine You realise that the bootlickers will call you a bunch of postmodernist neo-Marxists attempting to indoctrinate children into your pagan communist sorcery ways, don't you? They'll demand a level of evidence that is simply not possible and that's what they'll use as their hammer against indigenous land rights. While they cheer on the boot being held at the throats of indigenous Australians under the Northern Territory Intervention powers.

@adenkunz4747

4 жыл бұрын

Thats why you have to take it with a grain of salt. Youd think that schools would ram this down our throats, given how much they pamder to leftist ideology

@matthewmalpeli

4 жыл бұрын

@@adenkunz4747Leftist ideology? In Australian schools? BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, that was a good one. For a moment there I thought you were being serious

Well constructed - will be forwarding this on to fellow teachers. THANK YOU

They were hunter gstherers

@1:45 it's called 'MurNong' you missed the N. I'm indigenous australian and i grow murnong

@jorgeh.r9879

3 жыл бұрын

That's pretty cool. What tribe/group are you from?

@kanora582

3 жыл бұрын

@@jorgeh.r9879 Dharug and Gundagurra

Very interesting to learn this. However, during the 40,000 years of human presence many large animals have become extinct (due to Human activity?) A lot of time was available to learn the lessons of resource management

Great video as always dude, your channel is gold. Oh and btw from now on all your videos must be narrated by Thomas Mitchell.

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I'll send all future scripts to Thomas for narration :D

3:30 Pause!! Don't tell me you didn't see that 🤣🤣🤣

@reedbender1179

9 ай бұрын

😱...yep...😂

@Rn-pp9et

8 ай бұрын

Grain belt in 1974 ... right in the desert. Whoever made this video doesn't even know the geography of Australia and didn't even bother to look at it on Google maps. Central Australia has been a desert for 1000s of years.

how come none of the explorers, or expeditions sent to investigate any region of Australia describe "farms" ?

@laurensahanna5826

Жыл бұрын

Because of survivorship bias...

@FranklyAussie

8 ай бұрын

Because it's a work of fiction.

It's been established that agriculture appeared independently in Papua-New Guinea.

@guillaumerusengo9371

4 жыл бұрын

10000 years ago!

@MrAnperm

4 жыл бұрын

New Guinea is where banana and sugar cane were first domesticated.

@MelaniaRose

4 жыл бұрын

Actually all Indigenous people around the world have their own agricultural history

@zombieat

4 жыл бұрын

@@MelaniaRose source?

@StuffandThings_

2 жыл бұрын

The desire to grow things seems to be deeply rooted in humanity.

“How aboriginals made Australia.” Short answer: They didn’t 💀

@davidwaterfall4091

12 күн бұрын

Your right, people are just trying to rewrite history.

@3:33 are you sure the Dr. wasn't having a laugh in his sketching >_> Or maybe it was an ancient insider joke by the natives because they're were very insightful to their people's work. lololol, considering how much they cared for and planned their continent (as the video claims), it's not entirely out of the question :P

Excellent video, thanks for making something so educational, you’ve got another subscriber mate (Y)

The eel traps in South Western Victoria have been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site as of 2019.

Coming back to this video now with the bush fires in the news. Why do settlers ruin everything

Great video, you're doing important work. Not enough people know about this stuff.

This vid is so good! love the animation!😉👍

answer: they didn't

9:00 aren't there folks who similarly fish with the aid of dolphins?

Awesome video !! I love it ! This channel deserves more subs !

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad to hear you liked it :D

Just because you are aboriginal doesn't mean that you are any more special than anyone else nor deserving of any special treatment than anyone else.

Great video, I loved the animations and your commentary (made me laugh in a good way). Just an update. The eel traps and houses around Lake Condah, (called Budj Bim cultural landscape) was given World Heritage listing by UNESCO a few weeks ago. We are proud of our home and welcome local and international visitors anytime. Cheers from the Gunditjmara Nation.

You do know that Dark Emu has been exposed a a fraudulent text by a man who is pretending to be Aboriginal, also drawings aren't photographs.

@CogitoEdu

9 ай бұрын

Cool, that would mean something if Dark Emu was the only source but it isn't. The video contains literal first hand accounts of explorers commenting on these things. It contains a scientific map of Australian grain regions. It discusses literal archaeological sites you can go see today for yourself. Just because the author of Dark Emu is a weird guy doesn't suddenly make everything he talks about untrue. Dark Emu is almost entirely based on The Biggest Estate on Earth which is an academic piece of work with sources. Drawings aren't photographs no. But in an age before photographs they are all you have. If I see a Roman painting of a lion and then I can read first hand accounts of Romans discussing lions then I can safely assume the Romans were aware of lions.

@Grimloxz

9 ай бұрын

@@CogitoEduis this REALLY so hard to understand? Well done with your rebuttal CogitoEdu but I can tell you as someone living in Australia now that teaches in this field in two different Universities here that there are many bad faith arguments made on this subject and they don’t end with internet commentators. Unfortunately it does extend into academia.

@Rn-pp9et

8 ай бұрын

@@CogitoEdu Dark Emu used first settler accounts too, which were found to be contradictory or outright false. No recorded 'oral' history from any Aboriginal tribe ever mentioned agriculture or horticulture. I guess we currently don't know, but evidence doesn't show what you are alluding to in your video. I would classify this video as misinformation.

dude, well done, a million thanks.

As Australian students, we acknowledge the creator of this video and the information included. We respect how you gave the right information and are giving the respect the Aboriginal crew deserve. We appreciate the facts, the hard work and detail you have put in the video, along with the double checking your facts. Thanks, Histriano Ronaldo

In south Brazil fishermen get help from dolphins who make the fishes flee towards the fish nets. It's mutualism

I believe they had great land management that we could use today. It is too bad so much knowledge has been lost around the world.

@cvbcbvdfghv2296

3 жыл бұрын

@Trousersnake Pliskin what about you shut up

Very Informative

Very well studied and very well said!

My people, my pride.

Great video. Greetings from a Tunisian Amazigh to the lovely Aboriginal Australians.

just found ur channel and omagad its good stuff

One of your best, sir

There is no evidence to suggest that the Aboriginals farmed or lived in permanent housing in towns.

@MedusasSnakePit

3 жыл бұрын

Stfu

@laurensahanna5826

Жыл бұрын

Yeah no, there's evidence for farming, there's just no evidence for urbanisation

@arthurdent6828

Ай бұрын

Well alot of early explorers and pioneers say different. What do you base this comment on?

@Bully1973

Ай бұрын

@arthurdent6828 Historians like Geoffrey Blayney "Triumph of the Nomads ", is just one source. This inaccurate cartoon is based on the writing's of Bruce Pascoes "Dark Emu", the bloke is a fake ie not even aboriginal!!

@seanowens3153

Күн бұрын

@@arthurdent6828 ''traditional dot painting'' was also taught to them in the 70's by a white guy.....funny that

thanks for this great docco - I have always had a great respect for the original Aussies having had a few Aboriginal friends early in my life. I have been seeing more and more of this type of information coming out in the last 20 years but this is the most comprehensive I have seen. The Australian Aboriginal also gave us the the best game on the face of the earth!!!! he he he he - Marn Grook is now "almost' universally recognised as the original game that our great Australian Rules Football is based on ... YAY!!! thanks guys!!!! and thanks you Cogito again for a great docco!!

Thank you so much for this video, i hope it reachest the widest audience as possible, i am happy in the knowledge that we are being recognized, Slowly but will get there one day❤

Great video. The class loved it.

An ancient Aboriginal prophecy about a half-whale, half-man would come to unite our worlds? Clive Palmer! Give us another chance!

@user-ed9qu5im2y

4 жыл бұрын

lolllllll

Nana use to rub porcupine fat on us when we were kids we also ate the porcupine lol yum!

@justanaussie37

2 күн бұрын

Then Nana must have imported the porcupine from a country that it can be found. We have echidna in 'Terra Australis'.

This is amazing. Thank you!!

this was a particularly great video

Im australian and i thought i knew a fair bit about the Aboriginals but im starting to realise i knew stuff all and what i thought i knew is completely wrong i guaranty the average ausie has no idea how advanced the Aboriginal people where

do you have a fully referenced script?

Top notch and very engaging.

Very interesting.Thankyou.

Nothing given here convinces me of systemic agriculture or permanent settlements at all. The so-called "parks" were areas burned to clear hunting areas. This was not land "" or fire control but the deliberate destruction of the original non-eucalypts of the Pleistocene by aboriginals. Aboriginal people the for the dominance of the eucalypts which on fire for germination. All ancient peoples damaged their environment. The Australian aboriginals were no exception.

@laurensahanna5826

Жыл бұрын

Yeah no, this is fact bro facts don't care about your feelings

I love how you throw subtle shade at England from time to time (I'm from India)

@MichaelBrown-ul9ph

Жыл бұрын

Do you believe in Noah's Ark as well

I'm a 57yr old waradjuri man from Alexandria Sydney. In & out of institutions 50yrs. Lost my way last 30yrs. This woman; Ella Noah Bancroft, Like my mother, (R,I,P). Re stores hope, things gon be ok. Thank U 2all the Ella's out there trying 2make changes 4the betterment of all?? Atom heart mother. Shine on you crazy diamond ☘️✌️☮️☢️🌴

very interesting it helped me a lot from my assessment thank you