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Who were the first Australians?

Sixty-five thousand years of unbroken memory: how Aboriginal Australia carried law, science and history in song — and proved civilization needs no cities.

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Before the pyramids, before writing, before the wheel, people were already singing the world into order on the Australian continent — and their descendants are still singing. No culture on earth has lasted longer, and none carries its library the way this one does: in memory, in melody, in law.

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