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First footprints / written, directed and produced by Martin Butler and Bentley Dean ; narrated by Ernie Dingo..
Classification: PG (Mild themes and naturalistic nudity) DVD. Download study guide from URL below. Suitable for National Curriculum Year 7 History Unit 1. AIATSIS subject terms: Aboriginal Australians -- History ; Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities ; Prehistoric peoples -- Australia ; Culture conflict -- Australia ; Glacial epoch -- Australia ; Death - Human remains ; Demography - Palaeodemography - Aboriginal settlement of Australia ; Art - Subjects - Ancestral / totemic beings ; Art - Rock art ; Art - Rock art - Engraving ;Trade and exchange - Trade routes ; Sites - Dreaming tracks ; Environment - Climate and weather - Climate change ; Environment - Climate and weather - Floods ; Religion - Dreaming ; Animals - Mammals - Marsupial megafauna ; Culture - Relationship to land ; Sites - Quarries ; Technology - Stone ; Art - Subjects - Bradshaw figures ; Environment - Land management - Fire ; Art - Art motifs - Human figure ; Food ; Religion - Rites ; Law - Indigenous ; Hunting - Birds ; Food - Plants - Seeds / Flour. Episode 1: Super nomads: 50,000 to 30,000 years ago - The story of how people arrived and thrived on our continent. With startling new archaeological discoveries revealing how the first Australians adapted, migrated, fought and created in dramatically changing environments." ; Episode 2: The great drought: 30,000 to 15,000 years ago - "For thousands of years people lived with Australia's strange and ferocious mega fauna but all beasts went extinct during the last ice age. Temperatures were 6 degrees colder; it was dry and windy and lasted over 10,000 years." ; Episode 3 : The great flood: 18,000 to 5,000 years ago - "From eighteen thousand years ago, melting polar ice caps began drowning 25% of Greater Australia. And we meet Narrabeen Man, found under a bus stop on Sydney's Northern Beaches." ; Episode 4: The biggest estate: 9,000 years ago to 1788 - "9,000 years ago people in Australia were learning to manipulate available plants & animals to increase food resources. They transformed an entire continent into a fully sustainable estate, until outsiders arrived." - ABC wesbsite. Episode 1: Super nomads: 50,000 to 30,000 years ago - The story of how people arrived and thrived on our continent. With startling new archaeological discoveries revealing how the first Australians adapted, migrated, fought and created in dramatically changing environments." ; Episode 2: The great drought: 30,000 to 15,000 years ago - "For thousands of years people lived with Australia's strange and ferocious mega fauna but all beasts went extinct during the last ice age. Temperatures were 6 degrees colder; it was dry and windy and lasted over 10,000 years." ; Episode 3 : The great flood: 18,000 to 5,000 years ago - "From eighteen thousand years ago, melting polar ice caps began drowning 25% of Greater Australia. And we meet Narrabeen Man, found under a bus stop on Sydney's Northern Beaches." ; Episode 4: The biggest estate: 9,000 years ago to 1788 - "9,000 years ago people in Australia were learning to manipulate available plants & animals to increase food resources. They transformed an entire continent into a fully sustainable estate, until outsiders arrived." - ABC wesbsite.