Billy Griffiths

With a historian's inquiring mind, Billy Griffiths excavates two absorbing twentieth-century histories: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity and the uncovering of traces of ancient Australia by pioneering archaeologists. Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. In this original, important book, Griffiths investigates a twin revolution: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in the second half of the twentieth...

This is what a history of Australia looks like when it has Indigenous perspectives at its heart. For over 65,000 years, people have made this continent their own through language, song, water and fire. The First Inventors tells their story. It is a history of innovation, diplomacy and design, and a celebration of the survival and resilience of cultural knowledge....