The Constellation 'Emu' - Australian Aboriginal Astronomers

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Aboriginal astronomers see emu in sky
Judy Skatssoon
ABC Science Online
........ August 2005
........Orion represents a hunter in European culture but an emu in Aboriginal culture (Image: NASA/ABC Science Online)

Aboriginal bark paintings, stories and historical archives are helping an astrophysicist to learn more about Indigenous Australians' long history of documenting stars in the southern sky.

Dr Ragbir Bhathal of the University of Western Sydney is delving into a wealth of astronomical information buried in archives at the National Library of Australia.

This includes written records of public servants, pastors, writers, scholars and explorers who spoke to local Aboriginal people and documented their stories as they travelled the strange new southern land.

He also plans to travel to Arnhem Land, in the Top End, to hear Aboriginal stories first-hand.

Aboriginal Australians were the first to document stars in the southern hemisphere...cont'd

http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1437646.htm

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1. It looks as much like an emu as it does a hunter...