{"id":12278,"date":"2020-03-12T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T05:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/?p=12278"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:57:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:57:44","slug":"aboriginal-arts-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/au\/discover\/history\/general-history\/aboriginal-arts-and-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts About Indigenous Aboriginal Art &#038; Culture!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Explore Australia&#8217;s rich Indigenous Aboriginal arts and culture with our 10 amazing facts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong>\u00a0The <strong>Indigenous Aboriginal arts and cultures of Australia<\/strong> are the oldest living cultures in the world! One of the reasons they have survived for so long is their ability to adapt to change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> The earliest Indigenous art was paintings or engravings on the walls of rock shelters and caves, which is called <strong>rock art<\/strong>. Red ochre was being used for painting at least <strong>30,000<\/strong> years ago in central Australia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3:<\/strong> One of the largest collections of Indigenous Aboriginal rock art is in the heritage-listed <strong>Dampier Archipelago<\/strong> in <strong>Western Australia<\/strong>, where the rock engravings are thought to number in the millions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4:<\/strong> <strong>Albert Namatjira<\/strong> is one of Australia&#8217;s best-known Indigenous artists, and the first Aboriginal painter to receive international recognition for his art.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aboriginal-Culture-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aboriginal-Culture-1.jpg\" alt=\"Indigenous Art Culture\" width=\"635\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aboriginal-Culture-1.jpg 635w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aboriginal-Culture-1-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>5: <\/strong>Aboriginal people were in contact with the culture of other peoples, sharing ideas and skills, long before European occupation in <strong>1788<\/strong>, including <strong>Macassans<\/strong>, <strong>Melanesians<\/strong>, <strong>Dutch<\/strong>, <strong>Portuguese<\/strong> navigators and traders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6: <\/strong>At the time of European occupation, there were over <strong>700<\/strong> different Indigenous Aboriginal languages and dialects spoken in Australia. Now there are less that <strong>250<\/strong> still in use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7: <\/strong>Land is fundamental to the wellbeing of Aboriginal people. The land is not just soil or rocks or minerals, but a whole environment that sustains and is sustained by people and culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8: <\/strong>One of the most well-known sacred sites in Australia is <strong>Uluru<\/strong>, located in the centre of Australia. The first European explorers named it <strong>Ayers Rock<\/strong>. In 1985 the Commonwealth Government of Australia returned Uluru to its traditional owners, the <strong>Pitjantjatjara<\/strong> and <strong>Yankunytjatjara<\/strong> people (also known as <strong>Anangu<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aboriginal-Culture-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aboriginal-Culture-2.jpg\" alt=\"Indigenous Art Culture\" width=\"635\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aboriginal-Culture-2.jpg 635w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aboriginal-Culture-2-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>9: <\/strong>The <strong>didgeridoo<\/strong> is one of the world&#8217;s oldest musical instruments. It is made from limbs and tree trunks hollowed out by termites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aboriginal-Culture-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aboriginal-Culture-3.jpg\" alt=\"Aboriginal Indigenous Arts Culture\" width=\"635\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aboriginal-Culture-3.jpg 635w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aboriginal-Culture-3-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>10: <\/strong>Aboriginal Arts and Culture can be found in some of the most incredible locations. <strong>Lake Mungo<\/strong> in western New South Wales is a site of great Aboriginal and archaeological importance, containing material dated to at least <strong>33,000<\/strong> years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore Australia&#8217;s rich Indigenous Aboriginal arts and culture with our 10 amazing facts&#8230; 1.\u00a0The Indigenous Aboriginal arts and cultures of Australia are the oldest living cultures in the world! 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The earliest Indigenous art was paintings or engravings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/au\/discover\/history\/general-history\/aboriginal-arts-and-culture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facts About Indigenous Aboriginal Art &#038; Culture!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[933,937,1870,780,1850,164,1874,201,1871,1872,1873],"christmas-category":[],"class_list":["post-12278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-history","tag-aboriginal","tag-aboriginal-art","tag-aboriginal-culture","tag-australia","tag-australian-history","tag-british-history","tag-didgeridoo","tag-history","tag-indigenous-art","tag-indigenous-culture","tag-uluru","countries-australia","countries-ireland","countries-new-zealand","countries-south-africa","countries-united-kingdom"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Aboriginal Arts and Culture facts for kids | National Geographic Kids<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Explore Australia&#039;s rich Indigenous Aboriginal Arts and Culture with these 10 amazing facts, from amazing places to epic artworks...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aboriginal Arts and Culture facts for kids | National Geographic Kids\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Explore Australia&#039;s rich Indigenous Aboriginal Arts and Culture with these 10 amazing facts, from amazing places to epic artworks...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/nz\/discover\/history\/general-history\/aboriginal-arts-and-culture\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"National Geographic Kids\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ngkids\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-12T05:17:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-07T10:57:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aboriginal-Culture-Thumbnail.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"210\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Gemma Chandler\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@NGKidsUK\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@NGKidsUK\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Gemma Chandler\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.natgeokids.com\\\/nz\\\/discover\\\/history\\\/general-history\\\/aboriginal-arts-and-culture\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.natgeokids.com\\\/nz\\\/discover\\\/history\\\/general-history\\\/aboriginal-arts-and-culture\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Gemma Chandler\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.natgeokids.com\\\/uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/195f18ea012555b4e0786f55a65c617e\"},\"headline\":\"Facts About Indigenous Aboriginal Art &#038; 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