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I am doing a project, and i really need to know:

What's in an traditional Aboriginal Lunch?

Thanks so much!

2007-01-08 09:56:18 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Geography

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If he's in the countryside, his lunch is whatever he can catch or hit with his spear. If he's in the city, it's... the same thing!

2007-01-08 10:16:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

"The mode of life and material cultures varied greatly from region to region. While Torres Strait Island populations were agriculturalists who supplemented their diet through the acquisition of wild foods the remainder of Indigenous Australians were hunter-gatherers. Indigenous Australians along the coast and rivers were also expert fishermen. Indigenous Australians did practise agriculture. Torres Strait Islanders were skilled farmers and herdsmen, cultivating a variety of crops including sugar cane, taro and sweet potato as well as husbanding pigs and cassowaries. In contrast Australian Aborigines did not cultivate any crops and lacked any domestic food animals. Some writers have described some mainland Indigenous food and landscape management practices as "incipient agriculture". In present-day Victoria, for example, there were two separate communities with an economy based on eel-farming in complex and extensive irrigated pond systems; ...
On mainland Australia no animal other than the dingo was domesticated, however domestic pigs were utilised by Torres Strait Islanders. The typical Indigenous diet included a wide variety of foods, such kangaroo, emu, wombats, goanna, snakes, birds, many insects such as honey ants and witchetty grubs. Many varieties of plant foods such as taro, nuts, fruits and berries were also eaten. (see Bush Tucker)."

So the answer probably is, it varies from group to group. Google "Aborigines" or "Indigenous Australians" for more info.

2007-01-08 11:07:26 · answer #2 · answered by peter_lobell 5 · 0 0

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