australian aboriginal

Welcome to the thread, the goal here is to try and outline the real history of pre colonial Australia and to discuss potential avenues for alternative history and the challenges there-in. Before we begin in earnest I would like to note I have read the Lands of Red & gold and enjoyed it, but that...

Could it ever be possible that the Australian Aboriginals could develop and run advanced governments, akin to those developed in Precolumbian America? Or is Australia simply too resource-poor for such a feat? It's a huge island, with an incredibly diverse set of ecosystems, and a lot of it is...

So lets say that, ITTL, the Tiwi people begin practicing agriculture around 2,000-3,000 years ago (either developing it independently, or through contact with SE Asia) and begin to cultivate all of the crops native to the Tiwi Islands which they already gathered to eat (and still do) IOTL. These...

1300 BC: Lapita settlers establish a colony on Great Palm Island. They come into conflict with the Aboriginal inhabitants of the island, but the Lapita bow and arrow sees the Aborigines driven from the island. They eventually establish more peaceful contact with the Aborigines on the mainland...

So I was wondering more about Japanese victory in ww2, and I got interested in the fate of Australian Aborigines in a world of a Japanese Australia. Since Japan was viewed as the liberator of all non-white races, I was thinking Japan would grant more rights to Aboriginals. I could see Natives...

Opening this thread since the original was too old. IOTL, the Aborigines never formed a horse culture, despite many of their number becoming accomplished stockmen and horse riders after their conquest by the White Australians. It seems to me that they never formed a horse culture because they...

Okay first I must go over two things: 1. I want to be torn apart and critiqued. This is my first Alternate History, and I would like people to discuss and approve or disagree. If you see a problem, let me know. I'd like to be educated. Even if it's a simple stylistic problem, let me know if I...

On December 17 1967 Harold Holt was pulled from the surf, which had returned him to shore, blue in the face and vomiting sea water. Over the next three years the Commonwealth would legislate towards the recognition of Aboriginal people's rights and sovereignty. This would bring down the...

Land Below the Sunset #1- Crucible of Civilization The island nation of Papua [1], the world's most populous island, the second largest island on Earth (after Greenland) and the largest wholly or partly within the Southern Hemisphere, has a long history. Archeological and genetic evidence...

This is the thread for Act II of Lands of Red and Gold. Links to previous threads: Preview Thread Thread I (combined Prologue and Act I)