Australian Alps education kit
Australian Alps Liaison Committee, November 2005
Aboriginal people and the Australian Alps
Aboriginal people have cultural and spiritual associations with the Australian Alps that go back many thousands of years.
Evidence of the presence of Aboriginal people in the Australian Alps is recognised through the many archaeological and historic sites that remain and through the stories passed on through generations of Aboriginal people.
Although some evidence of Aboriginal occupation of the Alps was lost in the 2003 fires that affected much of the Australian Alps, further evidence of Aboriginal people’s association with the Australian Alps has been uncovered. Since the fires, many previously unknown Aboriginal sites have been discovered and recorded throughout the Alps. In the ACT the fires have revealed what could be the region's most significant Aboriginal heritage area. An area known as Jedbinbilla, near the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve, west of Canberra, was a pine plantation until the fires stripped away the impenetrable vegetation to expose thousands of individual stone artefacts and rock shelters.
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