The following is an extract from an article first published in Agora magazine (HTAV). According to the Australian Curriculum: History, the Ancient World falls neatly into a bracket of time that began approximately 60,000 years ago and ended 650 years ago. The Ancient World, and in particular Ancient Australia, is not as straightforward as this timeframe
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When conceptualising ‘history’, people usually imagine a stack of dusty books, or perhaps some crumbling stone ruins. But what happens when a place has no written records or clearly identifiable infrastructure? Is it still possible to construct a definitive historical narrative? If we are attempting to define Australia’s ancient history in a ‘Western’ sense then this can
Thanks to H. for submitting today’s Reader Question: Is it possible for an artefact to hold any value if its story has been lost? Take pennies for example. Quite a few features on a penny can help indicate its age, but for this instance, I’ll simplify our only understanding to what the date tells us.
