Aboriginal People Built Water Tunnels

ABC Net ^ | 3-15-2006 | Judy Skatssoon

[lesser_satan]

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[Pyro7480]

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[blam]

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[Michael.SF.]

All well and good, indicating that the Abo's were an intelligent race of people, who were able to understand quite well the harsh environment that they lived in and were able to make the most of what nature had provided them.

Who knows, maybe in a few thousand more years they may have progressed to the point where they might have caught up with our ancestors.

[SubGeniusX]

Who are "our" ancestors?

[aft_lizard]

Did Frank Herbert know about this? In Dune the Fremen built large underground resevoirs so they could survive and maybe change the face of Arrakis.

[William Terrell]

Who are "our" ancestors?

Those who built nations with high technologies (for the period) and complex political systems. Who do you think did that, or, were they not your ancestors?

[blam]

"All well and good, indicating that the Abo's were an intelligent race of people, who were able to understand quite well the harsh environment that they lived in and were able to make the most of what nature had provided them."

I don't know. They were exposed to the bow and arrow thousands of years ago from New Gueinna(sp) and never adopted it.

[Michael.SF.]

Well said, William.

I would also add that many civilizations of thousands of years ago were far more advanced then the aborigines of 300 years ago.

[glorgau]

I would also add that many civilizations of thousands of years ago were far more advanced then the aborigines of 300 years ago.

Best way to describe them, the aborigines are hippies "living off the land".

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

He based his work on oral histories, Dreamtime stories, rock art, artefacts and ceremonial body painting as well as written accounts by white missionaries, surveyors, settlers, anthropologists and explorers.

GEORGE: Maybe I'll go down to the track. Put it all on a horse...

JERRY: Why don't you put it in the *bank*?

GEORGE: The *bank*? This is *found* money. I want to *parlay* it. I wanna make a big score!

JERRY: *Oh*, you mean you wanna *lose* it...

[djf]

Read about the Qanats of Iran.

http://users.bart.nl/~leenders/txt/qanats.html

[wardaddy]

LOL...no no don't you know

they were superior to my wicked white european ancestors who only built aqueducts and whatnot for water distribution

culture is interesting but it ain't relative


wheels anyone?

[wardaddy]

Ouch Bill...a little candor is hard for folks

[Dustbunny]

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[Oztrich Boy]

wheels anyone?

See Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, Steel

Lack of a domesticatable dtaft animal handicap. Neither the Kangaroo nor the Wombat seems a suitable candidate.

[wardaddy]

and I guess they never needed wheelbarrows either...wheels were not just for livestock....take a look at old Egyptian and Roman wheel work and see who's pulling those lines sometimes..lol

i love how folks equate primitives with more advanced civilizations...anything to dilute evil racist Meso-European quasi- Caucazoid civilization

we are all the same...repeat....we are all the same...everyting is equal...everything is equal

don't guess they coulda used a phonetic alphabet either...grunts being so organic and all?

I've lived in primitive areas...trust me...they exist and they do lag..for whatever reason but sometimes just because.

[Drammach]

Qanats of Iran.

Same thing in Afghanistan.. traced in some cases, all the way back to China..
The use of deep wells and covered aquaducts to transport water and prevent evaporation of a scarce rescource is fairly widespread throughout the area...