Meteoritics and cosmology among the Aboriginal cultures of Central Australia

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2011-03-03

arxiv.org/abs/1103.0595v6

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History and Philosophy of Physics

Journal of Cosmology, Volume 13, pp. 3743-3753 (2011)

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The night sky played an important role in the social structure, oral traditions, and cosmology of the Arrernte and Luritja Aboriginal cultures of Central Australia. A component of this cosmology relates to meteors, meteorites, and impact craters. This paper discusses the role of meteoritic phenomena in Arrernte and Luritja cosmology, showing not only that these groups incorporated this phenomenon in their cultural traditions, but that their oral traditions regarding the relationship between meteors, meteorites and impact structures suggests the Arrernte and Luritja understood that they are directly related.

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