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=Technology & Adaptions to the Environment=

The Land and its resources
Australia is mostly covered in flat plains, desert and rock combinations. In the early mornings, the temperature is extremely hot and can get to 110 degrees, but in the night, it can get as cold as 0 degrees. Australia is made up of two islands, the mainland and the smaller island of Tasmania, which lies to the south. These two land is was once joined together but split apart thousands of years ago. Today's Australia is divided into seven large states and one small territory.

Finding Water
In this hot weather, the most important survival skill for the aborigines was the ability to find water. Because of the dry weather, there are only a few rivers and lakes that survived in this hot climate. Sometimes the aborigines would lie down on the sand and listen for the sound of water underground. Their sense are very strong, that many native people were able to find water with a faint smell of odor in the air. the aborigines soon realized that certain plants contain water in their roots, so they used this water very carefully. The aborigines also discovered a kind of frog that contains water in its body. They quickly learned this skill and was able to find these creatures deep beneath the dry, thick sands.

The aborigines invented the boomerang, a great weapon that really improved their hunting. Some boomerang's return the throwers while others do not. The returning type of the throwing is usually used in traditional native sports and games. Cultures in India and Egypt also used the same type of weapon, but only the Australian Aborigines had one that returns to the throwers. The boomerang is used to kill large animals, when it is killing flocks of bird of schools of fish it can catch very easily. The Woomera and Shield The other weapons that the aborigines used is called the woomera, it is a spear thrower and the aborigines had a great success at hunting.
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=Annotated Bibliography = //Anne Wallace Sharp, Lucent Books San Diego, California, Indigenous Peoples of the World, Australia, Published 2003.//