Sydney's Aboriginal Past

This second edition of Sydney's Aboriginal Past draws on the latest historical archaeological geological environmental and linguistic research as well as oral evidence of present-day Aboriginal people to reveal the diversity of Aboriginal life in the Sydney region before during and for the first thirty years of British settlement. Val Attenbrow describes the different Aboriginal groups and how they lived; the resources available; the foods they ate and their means of obtaining them; their tools weapons and equipment and how they were made; where they camped; their shelters clothing and personal adornment; their beliefs ceremonial life and rituals; as well as their designs and images.