Venue: Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Carrillo Gantner Theatre
Presenters: Duane Hamacher
Like many Indigenous peoples of the world, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures use the stars to inform navigation, calendars, and social structure. Within their complex astronomical traditions, the properties of stars play an important role. When stars rise and set at dusk and dawn inform people about seasons, animals, and plants. The shape, colour, magnitude, and changes in brightness and the relative positions of the Sun and Moon are also important. Astronomer Duane Hamacher will discuss the scientific information encoded in Indigenous knowledge systems, and how this is passed down through story, art, song, and dance.
Dr Duane Hamacher is a Senior Research Fellow at the Monash Indigenous Centre specialising in Indigenous astronomy.
This session is being run as part of the Final Frontier Festival, a five-day celebration of space hosted by the Melbourne Space Program.
from
https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/7020-the-science-of-aboriginal-star-knowledge
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