cisco said...FlySurfer said...
Wrong.
Abo's were doing just fine, and the early settlers relied on them... just like the Yanks on the Indians... then they farked them over... just like...
Wrong.
The so called aboriginals were going nowhere. Read up on Dampier, Cook and Flinders' observations.
Australia is a big island and it is well proven there was never a "land bridge" to Asia (Sunda Straits) so it therefore required a sophisticated "maritime culture" for any peoples to arrive and populate this land.
It therefore follows that the people encountered by the first Europeans to arrive here were the the declining remnants of a former sophisticated "maritime culture". The best they had were dug out or bark canoes.
Being such a big island with such diverse climatic and physical conditions it is obvious that some groups would fare better than others but overall they were culturaly nomadic and technologicaly stone age.
I do not disrespect any man or woman unless they deserve it. The fact is the only thing that counts is the fact of life today and that is that no one can dodge life today except by death.
For those who want to live in the past, harbour hatreds from the past and live their lives trying to turn back the clock, the best I can offer is pity.
This is all sooooo lame. Dampier and Cook and all of the "observers" before Darwin (and many after) had no training, no anthropological background, no empathy, and were completely white-centric. That is, they'd conclude, much like you it seems but without the hindsight of modern anthropology in their case, that they couldn't possibly be happy because no fire, no wheel, etc. Mind you, these views had a self-serving purpose: they're poor people, so we may as well take the land and shoot them as we please. Surprised you'd fall for this 300 years later. Heck, the poor wretched convicts were anglos and they didn't sound too happy themselves, despite knowing of the wheel.
Big island and land bridge - wow 17th century science. It's been discovered since that many of the Polynesian islands had much active traffic between them in spite of large distances. And yet no land bridge between thems remote islands, you know.
Race in decline: any facts behind this? We know the English just about wiped them out, including through diseases as well as outright hunting. But before that: facts please? Anyways what would have brought decline after so many 1000s years including weather fluctuations?
10k years ???? There are too many sites dated between 20 and 40k - dated through various cross-means. None of them is really debated other than give-take the usual 10-25%. Really, look up your weird facts mate. I think TAFE still has basic history and anthropo 101 courses for the layperson. Please go and debate there.
cisco said...
I do not disrespect any man or woman unless they deserve it.
Sounds like you're saying you're a person to decide who's deserving and who insn't?
Explains the rest, really.
PLEASE
