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Jul 9th, 2019 at 11:12am
 
'This is a very special day': How a little-known structure in Victoria achieved world heritage status - and is older than the Egyptian pyramids, the Acropolis and Stonehenge


- 6600-year-old aquaculture farm in Victoria given World Heritage protection

- System of creeks, holding ponds and channels engineered on extinct volcano

- Hundreds of tonnes of basalt blocks used to make dam walls

- Stone foundations found of ancient homes clustered around fish trap site

- Ancient Gunditjmara people channeled the waters to farm kooyang eels


An Aboriginal aquaculture farm that is older than the pyramids, the Acropolis and Stonehenge has been awarded World Heritage Status by the United Nations.

A complex system of weirs, channels and dams at Budj Bim, in southwest Victoria has become the first World Heritage site in Australia to receive the coveted UNESCO protection solely for its Aboriginal cultural importance.

The Gunditjmara people began to engineer the land around Lake Condah, which lies on a long-extinct volcano, about 6600 years ago in order to catch kooyang eels.

The eel farm was given World Heritage Status at a meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan on Saturday.

They established a finely-tuned farming system to catch large eels while ferrying smaller ones into adjoining stone pools through specially designed woven nets.

Water and young eels were brought from the creek to low-lying areas.

It is considered one of the world's oldest freshwater aquaculture systems. 

The sophisticated system supplied the settlement with enough food to sustain them year-round and also to undertake trade.

The site features the remnants of about 300 round stone huts that are the only remaining permanent houses built by an indigenous community in Australia - busting the myth that all Aboriginal people were nomadic.

The C-shaped basalt block structures up to 4 metres across appear to be house foundations and are clustered in the same area as the fish traps. 

Monash University indigenous archaeology professor Ian Niven wrote in The Conversation of the 1841 visit to the site by Australia's Chief Protector of Aborigines, George Augustus Robinson.

Robinson described Budj Bim as: 'an immense piece of ground trenched and banked, resembling the work of civilized man but which on inspection I found to be the work of the Aboriginal natives, purposefully constructed for catching eels.'

European settlers then altered the flow of Lake Condah's waters by installing drainage channels in the 1880s and 1950s, obscuring its cultural history until heavy winter rains in 1977 revealed how some Aboriginal-made channels fed water and eels into natural depressions. 

In the 1970s, Peter Coutts of the Victoria Archaeological Survey carried out site surveys at Lake Condah, a rugged basaltic landscape on an ancient lava flow.

Coutts found extensive Aboriginal fish-trapping systems with hundreds of metres of excavated channels and basalt dam walls made of hundreds of tonnes of blocks, Professor Niven wrote.

The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List at a meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan on Saturday following a decades-long campaign by traditional owners, some of whom were present for the announcement.

'This is a very special day for our community. This landscape, which we have cared for over thousands of years, is so important to Gunditjmara People,' Gunditjmara elder Denise Lovett said in a statement.

'The decision also recognises Budj Bim's significance to all of humanity. We are so proud to now be able to share our achievements and story with the world.'

The Budj Bim lava flows connect three components: the Budj Bim Volcano, Lake Condah and the Tyrendarra lava flow to the south with its wetland marshes.

All three areas are protected by the UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

Budj Bim is the 20th site in Australia to make it to the 1000-strong list and the second for Victoria alongside the Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, which was listed in 2004.

Other Australian World Heritage sites include the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu National Park and the Sydney Opera House.



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Reply #1 - Jul 9th, 2019 at 11:14am
 
Putting rocks on top of other rocks. Watch out Edison.
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Reply #2 - Jul 9th, 2019 at 11:15am
 
Mr Hammer wrote on Jul 9th, 2019 at 11:14am:
Putting rocks on top of other rocks. Watch out Edison.


I'm not at all surprised that that is as much as you understand.
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Reply #3 - Jul 9th, 2019 at 11:17am
 
Mr Hammer wrote on Jul 9th, 2019 at 11:14am:
Putting rocks on top of other rocks. Watch out Edison.


Wow, a fish trap - something used all around the globe for millennia..... what a find!!!  It's the end of civilisation as we know it...

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Reply #4 - Jul 9th, 2019 at 11:20am
 
Yet you all refused to believe it even existed, so ddetermined were you to beliGrappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jul 9th, 2019 at 11:17am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Jul 9th, 2019 at 11:14am:
Putting rocks on top of other rocks. Watch out Edison.


Wow, a fish trap - something used all around the globe for millennia..... what a find!!!  It's the end of civilisation as we know it...

https://media0.giphy.com/media/Ho2mVZ5dvsW7S/giphy.gif




Yet you refused to believe it even existed. so determined were you to place the First Australians beneath you.

I see you still are.

No surprises.
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Reply #5 - Jul 9th, 2019 at 11:47am
 
mothra wrote on Jul 9th, 2019 at 11:20am:
Yet you all refused to believe it even existed, so ddetermined were you to beliGrappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jul 9th, 2019 at 11:17am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Jul 9th, 2019 at 11:14am:
Putting rocks on top of other rocks. Watch out Edison.


Wow, a fish trap - something used all around the globe for millennia..... what a find!!!  It's the end of civilisation as we know it...

https://media0.giphy.com/media/Ho2mVZ5dvsW7S/giphy.gif




Yet you refused to believe it even existed. so determined were you to place the First Australians beneath you.

I see you still are.

No surprises.


Who said fish traps didn't exist, and who ever said the Niggrahs were beneath anyone?

Read in a lot, don't you... in an over-emotional state ...
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Reply #6 - Jul 9th, 2019 at 11:53am
 
Meanwhile in Sumer...
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Reply #7 - Jul 9th, 2019 at 11:53am
 
Grappler do you seriously contend that you were not being quite supercilious on the matter?
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Reply #8 - Jul 9th, 2019 at 12:34pm
 
It makes you wonder why the black fellas stopped at puttin a few rocks together and didnt move on to something a little challenging , Like space travel ?
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Reply #9 - Jul 9th, 2019 at 12:37pm
 
The aborigines could not have advanced much in terms of agriculture as there were no animals suitable for domestication and the only plant suitable for farming was the macadamia nut.

All in all, the evolutionary blowtorch produced a pretty resilient specimen who could survive in the bush where whitey would perish.

I loved working with aboriginal stockmen.
They were definitely the alphas in the bush,

The sad thing for them was the all smothering do gooders from Canberra who stepped in and , with useless compassion, turned them into perpetual toddlers sucking on leftie titties.
The Oedipal nightmare, the all smothering mother who wants to foster dependence to satisfy her own sick psychopathology
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Reply #10 - Jul 9th, 2019 at 12:39pm
 
BigP wrote on Jul 9th, 2019 at 12:34pm:
It makes you wonder why the black fellas stopped at puttin a few rocks together and didnt move on to something a little challenging , Like space travel ?


No need to.
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Reply #11 - Jul 9th, 2019 at 12:50pm
 
Aussie wrote on Jul 9th, 2019 at 12:39pm:
BigP wrote on Jul 9th, 2019 at 12:34pm:
It makes you wonder why the black fellas stopped at puttin a few rocks together and didnt move on to something a little challenging , Like space travel ?


No need to.



And why would that be ?
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Reply #12 - Jul 9th, 2019 at 12:54pm
 
The site features the remnants of about 300 round stone huts that are the only remaining permanent houses built by an indigenous community in Australia - busting the myth that all Aboriginal people were nomadic.
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Reply #13 - Jul 9th, 2019 at 12:55pm
 
Are examples like this supposed to make us think Aborginals were any more special than any hunter gathers that ever existed on the planet?

If the story was about Bonobos making fish traps, I'd be blown away.

Humans making fish traps, normal stuff.
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mothra wrote on Jul 9th, 2019 at 12:54pm:
The site features the remnants of about 300 round stone huts that are the only remaining permanent houses built by an indigenous community in Australia - busting the myth that all Aboriginal people were nomadic.



God you are thick.
Of course they were nomadic.
They had to be.
They didn't have wheat or rice or pigs or sheep to farm so they could settle down.
Why would being nomadic be considered in any way being lesser you dumb leftie,
It showed they were adapting to the evolutionary blowtorch.
Stick to women's studies and leave the aborigines alone.
The last thing they need is friends like you  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes
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