IHIS152 — Australia: Dreamtime to Dust
This subject outlines Australia's natural and human development: continental origins; the oldest life forms yet found on Earth; the origina and adaptation of marsupial fauna; the drying of the continent and the story of the oldest continous human culture in the world-the Australian Aborigines. It examines Aboriginal art, social and belief systems and survival of Aboriginal culture after colonisation. It will be a valuable subject for students of History, Geography, Environmenal and Natural Sciences, Anthropology, Archaeology, Palaeontology, and Social and Culatural Studies.