Hunting and Survival
This famous curved hunting tool is often incorrectly thought to always return.
Boomerang
This sticky substance was used to attach stone heads to tools and weapons.
Thermoplastic resin
This traditional practice used controlled burning to manage the land.
What is firestick farming?
This invention acted as an extension of the arm and helped spears travel further.
Woomera
These stone structures trapped fish and eels in waterways.
Fish traps or weirs
Approximately what percentage of Australian native plants need fire to germinate?
About 70%
True or False:
Most Aboriginal boomerangs were designed to return to the thrower.
False
Aboriginal fish traps are considered an engineering achievement because they controlled what natural resource?
Water
Firestick farming attracted animals by encouraging the growth of what?
Fresh grass and plants.
Name two materials that could be used to tip a spear.
Stone, bone or Shell
These tools could be made into knives, axes, spearheads and grinding tools.
Stone tools
Why did many Aboriginal groups move through different areas rather than stay in one place permanently?
To avoid over-harvesting resources and protect the environment.
Why would a woomera improve hunting success?
It allows a spear to travel further and with greater force and accuracy.
This wooden carrying vessel was used to transport food, water and sometimes babies.
Coolamon
Explain one way Aboriginal peoples demonstrated sophisticated environmental knowledge.