Some facts are also accessible to the Western eye, or for understanding important:
Unusually for the Western eye, animal and human figures in the “X-style”: Not only the outer shape of an animal is shown, but also the interior, so the skeleton and organs – not necessarily in the right proportions.
Colors and characters often have traditional meanings: The dunke ocher symbolized, for example, the turbid waters of billabongs (water balance) in the dry season, U-shapes are sitting on the floor for men or women, etc.
Many sites are created from the time when in Europe the world-famous cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux. The paintings at such sites, however, are not necessarily as old as they were “keepers” refreshed again and again and sometimes still are. Sometimes motifs are also painted on each other.
Artists are in secular art very innovative and willing to take on Western styles. A familiar example is the Künster Albert Namatjira, who with his “Burt’s Bluff” became world famous, but eventually to his homelessness among indigenous culture and Western civilization – and typically at the alcohol – perished.
The flexibility of today’s artists is evident not only in the acquisition of Western-style, but also in the material used: For reasons of durability and availability using Aboriginal place today mostly ocher acrylic paints!
What is in central Australia today painted on walls and bark, was once made only after a ceremony in the sand and destroyed.
Painted art and wood carvings with their typical motifs are today an important source of income wherever Aboriginal people are involved in the economy of the whites.
The music of the Aborigines has become known in recent years to a wider audience, since European musicians also took interest in the didjeridu: There is a 1.5m long, “primitive” wooden wind instrument with traditional motifs (dragons , fishing, etc.) is decorated and has often crafted from beeswax mouthpiece. Not bad for a didgeridoo is a stem or branch that has already been largely hollowed out by termites. The interior is then smoothed with a pole so far that has enough resonance is generated. Since the inner and outer dimensions of the instrument are not standardized, the sound is very individual. This property is further enhanced by the fact that the wooden tube holes or other technical devices are missing, so that the sound is produced only by the player who can emulate, for example, while playing a jumping kangaroo or a dingo barking. A master of the didgeridoo mastered the circular breathing , at the same time he blows and breathes.
Besides this, the culture of Aboriginal wind instrument known only to the clap sticks , batons, the human voice and didgeridus accompany rhythmic. Since the two instruments and the vocals during festive performances (corroborees) hours are used, such music may seem to Europeans, not least because of their lack of language skills very boring.

More than 200 years, Europeans the existence of this primitive people is unknown and the “Terra Australis”, the supposed southern continent, not yet discovered. Up to this time the Aborigines live in peace with nature in harmony and wrap a complex culture. But after the stress of “terra nullius” (It was assumed that it was inhabited by any people) composed by Europeans for the Aborigines, the risk of extinction or complete adaptation, which promoted the white man. With the downfall of many tribes was also a large part of the culture and lost their identity and the will to live of the Aborigines. Although the conditions have now improved for these people, the Aboriginal people a still discriminates against minority in their own country.

History of Indigenous Australians

Recent findings assume that they have immigrated prior 50000-60000 years coming from Asia into Australia. During the last glacial periods was for the people of Southeast Asia the opportunity to spread to the south and to colonize the Australian continent, there was decreased significantly by the ice age, sea level and separated so that only a narrow strait, the Asian islands from the Australian continent. The rich food supply of the tropical north of Australia and the Abandoned awareness prompted the Aboriginal quickly spread across the continent, to Tasmania, which at that time was not the bass – was separated from the mainland road. Later, when the sea level due to the decaying glacial rebounding, was the ancient people in a natural way isolated and could not mix with other races.

The nomadic tribes lived in simple huts or windbreaks, which were built from twigs and bark. For long hunting spears, boomerangs and spear throwers were (Woomera) is used. The women were often made of hard wood club (Nulla Nulla) with them, which they used as a weapon. The boomerang was used in addition to hunting for battle, and as a tool for sporting competitions. We distinguish the returning and not returning boomerang (Kylie).

Their former number is estimated at 750,000 to 1.5 million. They lived (and live in a small part of today) as hunters and gatherers and moved around the country as nomads. The development of settled life was never taken from them, given the wealth and size of the country, this was never necessary – the land that gave them what they needed. Their social organization is developed, but only up to the level of the tribe. Each tribe was a particular piece of land that was lived by its earnings. The natives knew the concept of property does not, instead, they saw themselves as guardians of the country.

With the arrival of the first convict transportation to the British and the settlers that followed after 1788, the saddest chapter in the long history of Aboriginal people. The settlement by the white man had dealt a devastating impact on indigenous people, they were hunted as subhuman. Here, the settlers had a lot of the knowledge that Aboriginal people had about the geography of the country can take advantage. Attempts to relocate tribes conjured up conflicts because of religious ties to their areas were strong.From the beginning of the 18th century estimated 300,000 Aboriginal people had remained in 1947 only 75,000 remained.

Only in the late 1950s was a more humane treatment of the natives on the subject in Australia, however, interrupted by events such as the Maralinga atomic bomb tests by the British, which took place from 1953 to 1964 in the desert of South Australia. A protection or relocation of Aboriginal people living there at that time was not held. In 1994 the government paid $ 13.5 million to Aboriginal people for the indemnification conducted nuclear tests in the desert. Although the contamination of the area and thus the suffering caused by the Aborigines are not outweighed in money, one requires at least a sign of a moral and a rethinking of the beginning of mutual understanding.

1960 Aborigines were granted civil rights (including voting rights), but only in 1967 allowed for a constitutional amendment that they were recorded in the census! By the 1976 adopted “Aboriginal Land Rights Act,” the original owners of significant tribal territories were returned. Them an important sanctuary in 1983, the Uluru (Ayers Rock) was passed. The original inhabitants of the liberal minded politicians and demanded on several occasions promised self-determination is still not confirmed by contract.Also had a signal effect on the 26th May 1998 for the first time celebrated national “Sorry Day”, in which Australian citizens for the crimes committed against the Aborigines apologized. The natives, however, wait until today, in vain, that the government will follow this gesture, also officially apologizes and realizes that her wrong.

The Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Commission ( ASTIC ), founded in 1980 from the Aboriginal Development Commission ( ADC emerged), promotes the social and economic development of Aboriginal people. Under the motto “helping people help themselves”, this organization funds and low-interest loans available that will help the Aboriginal people for the establishment of livelihoods. Especially in the arts succeeded many, become self-denying, and to prevent the production and sale of didgeridoos and the popular tourist traditional dot paintings of the living. Some shopping centers and cattle ranches are under the direction of Aboriginal people. However, the situation remains critical for the natives: 59 percent have an annual income of less than 12,000 dollars and 55 percent live for the most part by state funds. To work high unemployment, alcoholism, and the reluctance in the economic system of the white man to make the dar. today to be overcome problems also on the training of Aboriginal people is still being debated – it will contain aspects of both cultures.

By an artistic movement, the PapunyaTula Artist Pty Ltd, in the early 70′s were first introduced, the other only for cultural purposes to tradition, serving paintings in the form of images to the public. As these paintings were the “history” of the natives were, and among other things, about secret sacred ceremonies told that only certain tribal members were available, signs and symbols were camouflaged with dots and obscured. This kind of art was a kind of trend which was also the West’s attention. Today, works of art by famous artists aboriginal traded at high prices. 2007 Mbantua Gallery auctioned at an auction in Sydney a work of art of renowned artist Emily Kngwarreye, titled “Earth Creation” to 1.056 million – dollars. This is the highest price ever paid for a work by a native artist.

Technology: It was originally painted in the dot painting with natural pigments and earth colors, which were applied with a blade of grass or small branches. Today, acrylic paints and manufactured logs are used in various sizes. 

It is important that the color has the right consistency, so the points do not extend or be monstrously fat. The timber is immersed with the tip and then vertically, like a stamp is pressed onto the paint surface. It can dive up to an average of three points are generated with time. The decisive factor is the constant distance between the dots to achieve a beautiful surface course and the “pixel” effect. Thus, row by row and dotted generated by repeatedly add small amounts of paint over a continuous gradient. It is a very time-consuming technique that can produce very interesting visual effects and has meditative effect.

SYDNEY - An Australian study has revealed that Australian aborigines were perhaps the first in the world who have watched the stars. Observers of the stars and ancient Egypt Stonegengea thus topping for thousands of years, today reported the French news agency AFP.

Professor Ray Norris says he has detailed knowledge of the stars in the traditional songs and stories passed down from generation to generation of Aborigines, whose history dates back tens of thousands of years ago.

Norris, an astronomer at the Australian scientific agency the Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization, said that there are many superb Aboriginal songs, legends and myths about the sky, which are studied in detail. They found that there are a nomadic Aborigines to assist in guiding the sky, timing and indications of the seasons.

Norris is mentioned as an example of ritual song, in which the eclipse interpreted as an act of love between the Sun and the Moon, with a body covered with another body. Now, looking for evidence that would aboriginsko placed in the history of astronomy, for example, carved in the rock record of meteors or comets.

He Norris believes that the Aborigines in the observation of stars ahead of Europeans, including British Stonegengeom that occurred around 3100 BC, as well as the great pyramids of Giza.

“We found that the Aborigines dealt with astronomy, but we do not know when they began to observe the stars. If this was before 10,000 or 20,000 years ago, then Aborigines were the first astronomers worldwide,” added Norris.