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The following post is drawn from : The Astronomy of the Kamilaroi People and their Neighbours Robert S. Fuller1,2, Ray P. Norris1,3, Michelle Trudgett1 1Department of Indigenous Studies, Warawara, Macquarie University NSW 2109, Australia With a few exceptions, Scorpius is referenced not for the star pattern, but for some dark spaces around it. King Rory […]
Various designs were carved on the chest arms or back of the Kamilaroi boys years ago. These were known as ‘ mombarai ‘ or drawings that identified their family or clan. It is possible these simple designs could have been carved on trees as well ? Not randomly like graffiti but more like a message […]
I was very sorry to lose another lovely old scar tree to lightning strikes again this week. I put it on the home page gallery to mark its passing. The fire didn’t spread because the paddock is always stocked with sheep. Sheep keep the grass low so there is no build up of fuel that […]
I recently spent a week in Mexico and was very impressed with the Mayan cultural artefacts in the Anthropological museum and the Teotihuacan pyramids. The Inca Olmec Maya & Aztec civilisations were amazing in their own ways and all had much superior technology to the Australian Aboriginals. Some left behind not just pyramids and cities […]
I have found many burnt scars here and they seem to fall into 3 different varieties. The most common seems to be the possum trees…where a smoky fire is set at the base of the hollow trunk to force possums or other inhabitants upwards and out natural or cut holes into the arms or net of […]
I found an old campfire the other day, what they call an ‘ Emu pat hearth ‘ which is the remainder of hard baked clay from a fire . You can see a photo of it in the scars in country archive, just a small pile of orangey red burnt clay lumps out in the […]
In 2003 Andrew Long ( Andrew Long & Ass. Archaeological & Heritage consultants ) wrote ” There is an enormous amount of information that can be gathered from scarred trees , though so far this potential has not been widely explored ” . And so it remains ….I have contacted every Aboriginal / Archaeological Uni dept./group/politician that […]
I am over on Oxley Island near Old Bar for a week & have been paddling around the Manning river but have seen no scartrees at all. Maybe thats because of the wetter wilder weather here or different tree types that don’t hold scarring like the coolabah & bimble box or simply population pressure in […]
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Bora : The word Bora will be used in this book to mean a ceremonial ground or ceremony held on a Bora Ground. Dendroglyph : An incised tree. Glyph : The incised part of a Dendroglyph. Teleteglyph: Incised tree at a Ceremonial Ground. Taphoglyph : Incised tree at a Burial Ground. Wiradjuri: A tribe on […]