The First Astronomers
In the course of my work at Monash University I recently came in contact with Paul Curnow a renown astronomer at the Planetarium in Adelaide. Paul is passionately involved in promoting the Indigenous people of Australia as the very first astronomers.
Paul will be presenting a talk about Indigenous Astronomers at 8pm on Wednesday 8th October 2008 at the National Herbarium Building, Birdwood Avenue, Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. All are invited.
Find out more about Indigenous Astronomers from the following websites.
Aboriginal astronomers see emus in the sky.
http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?/science/news/stories/s1437646.htm
and
Aboriginal Skies