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#159 Aboriginal stories describe ancient climate change and sea level rise in Australia

#159 Aboriginal stories describe ancient climate change and sea level rise in Australia

FromNew Scientist Podcasts


#159 Aboriginal stories describe ancient climate change and sea level rise in Australia

FromNew Scientist Podcasts

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Length:
19 minutes
Released:
Jan 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this bonus episode of the podcast, hear an extended interview with Cassie Lynch, a descendent of the Noongar people of south west Australia who’s been studying their storytelling tradition.Find out how ancient accounts of rising sea levels from the end of the ice age around 7000 years ago have been passed down through aboriginal stories. And discover what we can learn from the events of the past in surviving the current climate crisis.Interviewing Cassie is writer and theatre maker David Finnigan. Find out more about the study by Patrick Nunn and Nicholas Reid here.To read about these subjects and much more, you can subscribe to New Scientist magazine at newscientist.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Jan 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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