Aborigine Essay Research Paper Aborigines Survival Methods

Aborigine Essay, Research Paper

Aborigine?s Survival Methods Report The Australian Aborigines are hunters and

gatherers. The Lardil who live on Mornington, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern

Queensland, have natural resources in abundance all around them. Therefore, they are able

to set up camp in different places, away from the tribe. They can easily find water and

food, enabling them to hunt during the day and set up camp away from the tribe during the

night and go back the next day with what they caught. Their land also provides them with

a great supply of roots, berries, yams, panjas, and water lilies. Wallabies, swamp turtles,

ducks, geese, lizards, and goannas are the different animals living on their land that are

available for hunting. The sea also provides them with different types of nourishment such

as mullet, salmon, rock cod and barramundi. They catch these fish with rock traps and

nets, or by hooks, lines and spears. They also know how to get sea turtle?s eggs by the

hundreds. The aborigines follow a mother sea turtle?s tracks to her nest and by flipping her