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Author
Griffiths, Billy
Title
Deep time dreaming: uncovering ancient Australia
Imprint
Black Inc., Carlton, Vic., 2018, 376 pp
ISBN/ISSN
9781760640446
Subject
History of Human Sciences
Abstract

People would have known about Australia before they saw it. Smoke billowing above the sea spoke of a land that lay beyond the horizon. A dense cloud of migrating birds may have pointed the way. But the first Australians were voyaging into the unknown.

Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian's inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent.

Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. It investigates a twin revolution: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in the second half of the twentieth century, and the uncovering of the traces of ancient Australia.

It explores what it means to live in a place of great antiquity, with its complex questions of ownership and belonging. It is about a slow shift in national consciousness: the deep time dreaming that has changed the way many of us relate to this continent and its enduring, dynamic human history.

Awards for Deep Time Dreaming
Winner, 2020 Felicia A. Holton Book Award
Winner, 2020 Max Crawford Medal
Winner, 2019 Ernest Scott Prize
Winner, Book of the Year at the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards
Winner, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction at the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards
Winner, 2018 John Mulvaney Book Award
Highly Commended, 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
Shortlisted, 2018 Queensland Literary Awards
Shortlisted, 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Awards
Shortlisted, 2019 Educational Publishing Awards
Longlisted, 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards
Longlisted, 2019 CHASS Book Prize

Source: https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/deep-time-dreaming

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  • Griffiths, Billy, Behrendt, Larissa and Ulm, Sean, The first inventors: how people shaped a continent (St Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2026), 320 pp. Details

EOAS ID: bib/ASBS06339.htm

This Edition: 2026 August - Bibliographies
Larneuk - Gariwerd calendar - Pre-spring: late July to August - season of nesting birds
Reference: https://www.bom.gov.au/resources/indigenous-weather-knowledge/indigenous-seasonal-calendars/gariwerd-calendar#bom-anchor-list__item-larneuk-season-of-nesting-birds

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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260