[meteorite-list] Australian Aboriginal Geomythology: EyewitnessAccounts of Cosmic Impacts?

From: Matthias Bärmann <majbaermann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:06:42 +0200
Message-ID: <FCBDBF75795D4E3FBFE54454E6D99543_at_thinkcentre>

Thanks so much for sharing, Robert - an utmost interesting subject indeed.

Best regards,

Matthias


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From: "Robert Verish" <bolidechaser at yahoo.com>
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Australian Aboriginal Geomythology:
EyewitnessAccounts of Cosmic Impacts?


<http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.4251>

Australian Aboriginal Geomythology:
Eyewitness Accounts of Cosmic Impacts?

Authors: Duane W. Hamacher, Ray P. Norris
(Submitted on 22 Sep 2010)

Abstract: Descriptions of cosmic impacts and meteorite falls are found
throughout Australian Aboriginal oral traditions. In some cases, these texts
describe the impact event in detail, sometimes citing the location,
suggesting that the events were witnessed. We explore whether cosmic impacts
and meteorite falls may have been witnessed by Aboriginal Australians and
incorporated into their oral traditions. We discuss the complications and
bias in recording and analysing oral texts but suggest that these texts may
be used both to locate new impact structures or meteorites and model
observed impact events. We find that, while detailed Aboriginal descriptions
of cosmic impacts are abundant in the literature, there is currently no
physical evidence connecting these accounts to impact events currently known
to Western science.

Comments: Submitted to "Archaeoastronomy: The Journal of Astronomy in
Culture", 51 pages, 6 Figures, 6 Tables

Subjects: History of Physics (physics.hist-ph); Popular Physics
(physics.pop-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:1009.4251v1 [physics.hist-ph]


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