Published Resources Details
Book
- Title
- The first inventors: how people shaped a continent
- Imprint
- Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, N.S.W., 2026, 320 pp
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781761471735
- Subject
- History of Human Sciences
- Format
- Description
This is the story of how Indigenous knowledge shaped the Australian continent. Based on the stunning SBS and Channel 10 TV series, The First Inventors takes readers on a journey through 65,000 years of innovation, diplomacy and design. It challenges everything you thought you knew about the deep history of Australia.
- Abstract
This is what a history of Australia looks like when it has Indigenous perspectives at its heart.
For over 65,000 years, people have made this continent their own through language, song, water and fire. The First Inventors tells their story. It is a history of innovation, diplomacy and design, and a celebration of the survival and resilience of cultural knowledge. It explores how people managed and engineered entire landscapes, and how they orchestrated seascapes according to the stars, tides and relationships with animal kin.
The First Inventors is grounded in the idea of Country: a transformative way of seeing, and relating to, the world. It honours old ways of knowing and relates fresh insights from cutting-edge collaborative research: from astronomy, navigation and ancient memory systems to archaeology, pottery and international trade.
Source: https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Billy-Griffiths,-Larissa-Behrendt-and-Sean-Ulm-First-Inventors-9781761471735
- Source
- cohn 2026
Related entries
Corporate Bodies
- Australian Museum (1827 - )
pages 143, 207, 209, 221
People
- Basedow, Herbert (1881 - 1933)
page 236
- Bates, Daisy May (1863 - 1951)
page 191
- Cleland, John Burton (1878 - 1971)
page 214
- Cook, James (1728 - 1779)
pages 144, 156
- Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (1820 - 1889)
page 172
- Elkin, Adolphus Peter (1891 - 1979)
pages 166, 167
- Flannery, Timothy Fridjof
page 40
- Gott, Margaret Beth (Beth) (1922 - 2022)
page 179
- Hallam, Sylvia Joy (1927 - 2019)
pages 167, 179, 190
- Hamlyn-Harris, Ronald (1874 - 1953)
page 131
- Hellyer, Henry (1790 - 1832)
pages 79, 81
- Howitt, Alfred William (1830 - 1908)
page 279 note 5
- Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769 - 1859)
page 153
- Smith, William Ramsay (1859 - 1937)
- Stanner, William Edward Hanley (Bill) (1905 - 1981)
- Unaipon, David (1872 - 1967)
Related Published resources
Related
- Griffiths, Billy, Deep time dreaming: uncovering ancient Australia (Carlton, Vic.: Black Inc., 2018), 376 pp. Details