Deep Time
Today we have been setting some natural history context for the story of "The First Tasmanians". This is a permanent exhibition at the QVMAG in Launceston. An exhibition curated by the museum and art gallery in conjunction with the Aboriginal community.
www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/Exhibitions/Permanent/The-First-Tasm...
Over the next two days we'll look at some of the specific cultural aspects.
The little machine pictured above allows the viewer to watch a simulation of how the landscape of Tasmania has changed over the last 50,000 years - not long before the first people arrived. This is deep time, prehistory, before we even begin to have oral history.
[Enlarge the photograph and you should be able to read the display.]
Deep Time
Today we have been setting some natural history context for the story of "The First Tasmanians". This is a permanent exhibition at the QVMAG in Launceston. An exhibition curated by the museum and art gallery in conjunction with the Aboriginal community.
www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/Exhibitions/Permanent/The-First-Tasm...
Over the next two days we'll look at some of the specific cultural aspects.
The little machine pictured above allows the viewer to watch a simulation of how the landscape of Tasmania has changed over the last 50,000 years - not long before the first people arrived. This is deep time, prehistory, before we even begin to have oral history.
[Enlarge the photograph and you should be able to read the display.]