📅 31 May 2009
The paper documents sky knowledge maintained through oral tradition, ceremony, art and practice.
📅 31 May 2009
Some Aboriginal traditions identify forms in the dark lanes of the Milky Way rather than only connecting bright stars.
📅 31 May 2009
Rising stars, lunar phases and other observations help time ecological and community activities.
📅 31 May 2009
Careful observation and transmission can be rigorous even when knowledge is not stored in books or institutions.
📅 10 March 2011
The authors compare written colonial sources, oral traditions and astronomical calculations to identify observational knowledge.
📅 10 March 2011
Accounts may preserve unexpected celestial events as well as repeating lunar, solar and seasonal cycles.
📅 10 March 2011
Stars and their rising or setting positions can mark directions, travel routes and seasonal change.
📅 10 March 2011
Researchers need to respect community authority, restricted knowledge and the harms created when outsiders extract cultural information.
📅 5 June 2013
The publication surveys calendars, navigation, cardinal directions, eclipses, meteor impacts and oral explanations of the sky.
📅 5 June 2013
Astronomical knowledge appears within social responsibilities, stories, ceremonies and relationships with land.
📅 5 June 2013
The study reports traditions capable of orienting travel to within a few degrees through celestial cues.
📅 5 June 2013
The overview rejects portrayals of Indigenous Australians as passive observers without systematic knowledge.
