Originally posted by atomic811
it would also state to they seem that they were in health sick children usually dont usually run in circles and play when ill ..so i assume that they
were also happy.
Undoubtedly. And loved as well. And hated and all the emotions we have today. If you hauled one out of that time (16,000 years ago) and brought her
here, you couldn't tell the difference between them and us (except for language, of course.)
i would love to know what they ate.. if they cooked..did they eat meat..
Certainly the did. These are Australian Aborigines from the ice age, and probably lived as they do today. The climate there was fairly warm, so they
wouldn't have needed as much clothing as the Eskimos (for example) or Native Americans moving across the land bridge in Beringia would have
needed.
They had the boomerang and other hunting sticks.
They'd arrived in Australia perhaps 50,000 years ago:
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They used fire to manage plants and animals with controlled burning (as did the Native Americans... no, it was developed independantly and not
borrowed from each other.) Depending on what lived there, they would have foraged for that. They lived as hunter-gatherers.
i wish we had a time machine i would love too see these things.. maybe even help us in the future as to what foods we ate before the
supermarkets popped up and all the chems got dumped into the food
While not quite as varied as our diet today (and some of the things that they ate would have disgusted us... such as insect larvae) it was pretty
varied. To quote from a site:
Aboriginal food and diets before European settlement
The Aborigines' food supplies before contact depended on the locality and season; in the interior of the country, food supplies were often scarce and
the unpredictable water supplies affected survival. Animal foods that were hunted included mammals (eg, kangaroos, wallabies, possums, bandicoots, and
bats), reptiles (eg, crocodiles, snakes, turtles, goannas, and other lizards), birds (eg, emus, parrots, bush turkeys, and ducks), and fish in rivers
and along the coast. The eggs of many of these creatures were important. The men hunted large animals like kangaroos and emus. Insects such as honey
ants and wild bees provided honey that was and still is popular in remote areas—this was an important carbohydrate source. Witchetty grubs are high
in fat and have a composition similar to that of olive oil—these grubs are eaten raw or are lightly cooked in the ashes of a small open fire. The
fatty parts of animals such as goannas were traditionally very popular after being cooked whole on red hot coals on the ground and turned occasionally
so that the skin could be cooked; in northern Australia, food may be steamed while wrapped in leaves (or, today, in metal foil).
The seashore and river estuaries provided not only fish, sharks, stingrays, and dugongs, but also crabs, oysters, mussels, other shellfish, and
snails. Inland waters were very important for fish, crustaceans, turtles, snakes, and birds and for plants such as water lilies.
The rich supply of plants the Aborigines ate included wild plums, apples, peaches, berries, figs, grapes, oranges, and desert bananas; the wild plum,
Terminalia fernandiana, is the richest known natural source of vitamin C. There are also bush tomatoes and native vegetables such as carrots, onions,
and bush potatoes. A variety of yams exists in different environments from the coast to the deserts. There is also a large range of nuts indigenous to
Australia, including the macadamia nut and local chestnuts, walnuts, and almonds; these are most plentiful in Queensland (7). Seeds from bushes, such
as mulga and acacia, and from grasses were painstakingly prepared and ground into a paste from which damper (a type of bread) was prepared by slow
cooking or baking by using the coals of an open fire and eaten with other foods (8).
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lol wonder what they talked about.
There's a good show on tv (can't seem to find the name, but it's on Discovery/History/PBS/Science channel that follows a native tribe's lifecycle.
The people talk about pretty much what any farming group with no outside contact talk about -- gossip about each other, about marriages and other
tribes, about pigs and farming, about magic, about forces causing good and bad luck, and so forth (their type of religion is shamanism; the oldest
type of religion in the world, where there are spirits in the world and they must be appeased.)
