Reading Madukka the River Serpent - Julie Janson 2022.

“Aunty June is the proud owner of a TAFE certificate III in Investigative Services. Corruption, commercial cotton farmers, bikies, racism, water theft, and unreliable local police – Aunty June is up against it & the Darling River, the sacred #Barka is running out of water. Aunty June may be out of her depth, but nothing will stop her fighting for her people and her land.”

#BooksofMastodon #firstNations #Darug Burruberongal #JulieJanson

The highest human-occupied #Australian rock shelter from the Last Glacial Maximum, peak Ice Age 20,000 years ago.

'Archaeologists say the huge rock hollow was a camping spot “kind of like the Hyatt of the mountains”, occupied continuously until about 400 years ago.'
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'The groundbreaking study, funded by the Australian Museum Foundation, was a collaboration between archaeologists and Aboriginal custodians who have spent six years mapping rock shelters across the greater Blue Mountains area, spanning 1m hectares of mostly untouched wilderness west of Sydney.

'Some sites are known only to a handful of Aboriginal people or intrepid bushwalkers. Others have only just been rediscovered.'

#Pleistocene #archaeology #songlines #Darug #Wiradjuri #Gomeroi

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/17/dargan-cave-shelter-ice-age-site

I'm thoroughly enjoying the sunnier weather in Sydney at the moment, and am slowly checking off local bushwalks I've been meaning to do for a while.

Today was the Sphinx Memorial to Bobbin Head loop on the land of the Darug people.

#hiking #bushwalk #sydney #Darug