i made a comment after returning from vacation in Turkey how amazing it was to see like 2000 year old aquaducts just there, and that the aborigines (native Australians) didn't make anything. A coworker who I did not get along with, said "well that's debateable", in reply I just said "I'm sorry, I must've missed that history lesson, what did they make?"
she walked away without saying a word
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It doesn't matter if they made anything or not. It was their land. I mean really? What type of argument is this?
Just because there are few physical relics from an era does not mean that those who lived in it were without value. Mesoliths ftw <3 I do not however think that @iccarus was implying this, but was simply admiring the leavings of one of the many post-Neolithic cultures.
I think it partly depends on the meaning of "make". Aborigines have more of an oral culture (even though they still have a material one too), and since the transmission of legends is very strict in their culture, to ensure it doesn't change meaning or gets diluted from one generation to another, they are passed down in a very neat condition. Which has led to scientists noticing that we now have basically witness accounts of some events that happened thousands of years ago. That's the intangible equivalent to a monument, but harder to see.
about building something, i thought i was clear on that. I was referring to the structures left in turkey from 2000+ years ago, nothing was ever built in australia that long ago, so don't know how you missed that point, really?
Then if your question is about physically building something, I raise you Brewarrina Fish Traps. Those are possibly one of the oldest set of manmade constructions in the world, consisting on stone walls (about 1km long) which divided the course of river so that fish would then get trapped in small enclosures.
It isn't the same type of structure as an aquaduct, as it was made to answer other needs obviously, so it doesnt majestically rise above water, yet the "size, design and complexity" are of enough "value" to have gotten them on the World's Heritage list.
she walked away without saying a word
It isn't the same type of structure as an aquaduct, as it was made to answer other needs obviously, so it doesnt majestically rise above water, yet the "size, design and complexity" are of enough "value" to have gotten them on the World's Heritage list.