stales, I did read your link, and found it quite informative. Thank you. A couple of criticisms: first it said that "Australia may well be the home of the worlds first people." A few paragraphs later, it said "This made it possible for the ancestors of the people now called Australian Aboriginals to reach Australia from lands to the north." That left me wondering how the first people could have come from somewhere else. I will grant the benefit of the doubt that this was designed to be an overview, and that elucidating details must be given in some other writing. I also wish that people who are in the position of educating would either spell correctly or get a good editor: "As the ice flows of the Ice Age began to melt...". (My bolding.) Maybe it's just me, but if somebody presents their information sloppily, then I tend to rather discount it. Oh--just remembered my other comment: whoever wrote that didn't seem to have cared much about what the females did, or how.
All that aside, however, I did enjoy reading it. I like the evocation of "the land was given long ago in the Dreamtime." The article was good all the way through about giving subsequent information on unusual things mentioned, such as the Dreamtime.
"...the Macassan boats that visited the northern coast each year from Macassar and Celedes to collect trepang" led me on an interesting armchair journey. The only other mention I can recall of Macassar was in old books, which said that people had antimacassars. (Small pieces of cloth, or a doily, draped over the back of a chair so that someone's head would rest against that, and not the upholstery.) So I Atomica'd Macassar, wondering if perhaps it was a place that exported oil for the hair, and found out: that it has a new name, now (Hi, lovely Bingley!), and that one of its products is copra, which gives coconut oil! Thank you!
