Welcome to Deep Time

Explore some stories about time and dreaming and memory.

Pyramids built

Eclipse of the sun

Canoes in Canberra

Murujuga seas

Budj Bim eel traps

Boonwurrung walking journey

Navigation and star maps

Wardaman navigation

Nyoongar kinship

Mammoth Cave megafauna

Moon and Possum Dreaming story

Gurindji walk off

Mabo decision

NT sea country rights

Bunya Peoples grasslands fire management

Boonwurrung Melbourne seasons

Budj Bim stone huts

Lore segue

Fire stick farming

Gadigal fisherwomen

Tiwi islands creation story

The stars

Pearl shell trade

Sea level drops

Open air camps

Port Phillip Bay Wurundjeri

Seasonal calendar Nyoongar

Uluru Statement

Lightning Brothers

Narrabeen man killed

Roonka Flat cemetery

Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Royal Commission

Dharawal fireplace

Jabreen honey dreaming

Quinkan rock art

Racial Discrimination Act passed

Flinders island occupation ceases

Victorian volcano eruption and tsunami

Dinosaur dreaming tracks

Knives and beads

Buddhist scriptures written

Rottnest Island seas

1967 referendum

Scar trees of Wakka Wakka County

NT Intervention

Gulf of Carpentaria fish traps

Yolngu Venus ceremony

Budj Bim volcano erupts

Populations die out

Wardaman Creation Ancestors

Yolgnu Moon and tides

Zaglossus hacketti

Glaciers in Tasmania

Colosseum built

Seasonal calendars

Mabuiag Island game Kolap

Brewarrina fish traps

Saga of Kuyam

Sealer and whaler women

Ice age peaks

Seven sisters story segue

South Sea Islander slave trade recognised

Bush University

Moon Rock

Lake Boort

Sea level rise segue

Gippsland seas

50000 years ago

Mungo Lady reveals herself

Pilbara garden terrace

Earliest bread bakers

Tagai

Boonwurrung early contact

The Diprotodon

Complex trade routes segue

Bunya Nut food source

Megafauna continued

Kinrara volcano

Earliest human faces in painting

Managing the land

Dolphins help with fishing

Rome founded

Cook pulls into Botany Bay

Stolen Generations

Gummingurru

Megafauna dies out

Reconciliation

Land bridge forms

Parthenon construction begins

Bonyi Biar peak

Genyornis newtoni

Whales helping with hunting

Moon lagoon

New Guinea and Torres Strait separate

60000 years ago

Rosemary Island stone huts

Referendum / announcement

Ice age begins

Emu in the sky Wiradjuri

Spear fishing

The dingo arrives

National Apology

Great Barrier Reef watercraft

Marwurrumburr, Thylacoleo carnifex

Wirangu Seven Sisters

Canberra meeting place

Sea levels rise

Willandra Lakes dry up

Nyoongar sea level rise

Coming of the light

Torres Strait Islands form

Murujuga megafauna engravings

Wardaman songlines

Frontier Wars

Wardanam seasonal calendar

Makassan/Macassan trade

Yidaki

First contact art

Law keeper rock

SA bird hunting

Barrow Island cave

Uluru handed back to Traditional Owners

Stonehenge built

Mining and medicine

Bible written

Dhakkin Rainbow Serpent

Giant freshwater crocs

Madjebe rock shelter

Gubullamunda dreaming

Nyoongar ice age

Land connected

Dampier visits Australia

People abandon Ngarrabullgan

Willandra Lakes footprints

Flinders island occupied

Whitsunday Island life

Reconciliation walk 2000

Eumeralla war begins

30,000 years ago

Torres Strait banana cultivation

Sea levels rise rapidly

Varanus priscus

Message sticks

Emu in the sky Murujuga

People live with megafauna

Torres Strait named

Nyoongar creation story

Quran written

5,000 years ago

New Guinea farming

Hafted axes

Canoes in Canberra

Salisbury Island cave

Division of country

Gulf of Carpentaria sea level rise

10,000 years ago

National Sorry Day

Bonyi Bonyi (Bunya gathering)

Population thrives

Bass Strait fills

Murujuga gallery

Ice age ends

Warrane Creation Story

Pilbara creation story

Emu in the sky segue

Long-armed kangaroo

Possum skin cloaks

Procoptodon goliah

Fishing techniques

Bundian Way pathway

Port Phillip Bay Boonwurrung

20,000 years ago

Parts of Tasmania abandoned

Hunting sustainability

Old man emu

Tasmania cut off

Galileo builds telescope

Earliest bird stencils

Njaki Njaki Moulyk Dreaming

First Fleet arrives

Reef islands form

Seven sisters Nyoongar

Nyoongar totems

Mungo Man and Mungo Lady traditional burial

Djankawu seas

Before earliest point in timeline

First World War

Occupation of new land