Why didn't Traditional Aborigines go to another country with more food???
2007-09-02 15:15:44 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
There was planty of yams, fruit and millet, grass
seed, water-lily tubers, for the aborigines. The problem was in storage of parishables. Long-term preservation of many foods presented serious problems. In poin of fact the difficulties of food storage in the Australian environment may be of prime importance in understanding why food surpluses were not produced.
The combination of high temperatures and
pronounced seasonality of rainfall made food storage difficult in tropical Australia, not only for Aborigines but also for early European settlers. Early explorers, even with the benefit of salting and smoking techniques unknown to Aborigines, often found that the game they killed went bad within a few hours.
The closest place they may have migrated to was New Guinea. There was plenty of food in New Guinea, and more water sources. However there was also tribes dedicated to head hunting already entrenched.
2007-09-02 16:57:31 · answer #1 · answered by Terry 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
which aborigines are you talking about?
Austrailia? come on now. i have never heard of this. there was hardly any food, etc because of the barbaric europeans coming over as usual to take land and riches of the land away from the owners.. What happened to the native indians (americans)of the USA is the same thing that happened to the aborigines. a lot of them died from the european diseases, small pox, etc... lets see now; disease, land taken away when greedy,heartless, savich, shameless european settlers came over =starvation and death .
what country should they have went to since the Europeans couldn't kill all of them off? The same country that the Native Americans should have went to when the Europeans couldn't kill all of them off? their own country. They never had a problem until outsiders plotted ways to get rid of them.
have you seen the size of Australia? it is big enough to be a continent because it is a continent, not a country. so did you mean to say why didn't aborigines go to another continent? that is if you are talking about the Aborigines of Austraila.
2007-09-02 16:24:01 · answer #2 · answered by jj 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They are incredibly in touch with their surrounds, they know what "bush tucker" is in certain areas and they used fire to make sure the next time they went there, all would be replenished. As for water they would have stored water, hollowed rock with a rock on top to keep out debris. They as a clan would know the good hunting grounds and where their "water' holes are.
2007-09-02 15:41:48 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know aboriginal's were the first people to go to america. Is that what you mean?
2007-09-02 15:22:11 · answer #4 · answered by kolalajoe 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is plenty of food and water in Australia you just have to know where to look and they did.
2007-09-02 15:32:26 · answer #5 · answered by molly 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
probably because they couldnt figure out how to get to other lands
2007-09-02 17:11:56 · answer #6 · answered by Danny 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋