Comet and Meteorite Traditions of Aboriginal Australians
History and Philosophy of Physics
2015-06-22 v1
Abstract
Of the hundreds of distinct Aboriginal cultures of Australia, many have oral traditions rich in descriptions and explanations of comets, meteors, meteorites, airbursts, impact events, and impact craters. These views generally attribute these phenomena to spirits, death, and bad omens. There are also many traditions that describe the formation of meteorite craters as well as impact events that are not known to Western science.
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@article{arxiv.1409.1563,
title = {Comet and Meteorite Traditions of Aboriginal Australians},
author = {Duane W. Hamacher},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.1563},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 2014. Edited by Helaine Selin. Springer Netherlands