Many of these trees contain scars and carvings from these activities, although over time the marks are often enveloped by new growth. Aboriginal culturally modified trees can be found across Australia ...

SYDNEY -- A pair of "ghost gum" trees in Australia's outback made famous in watercolors by Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira have been destroyed in a suspected arson attack, shortly before they ...

Thomas Richards, Catherine M. Bennett, Harry Webber, A post-contact Aboriginal mortuary tree from southwestern Victoria, Australia, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 37, No. 1 (March 2012), pp. 62-72 ...

The Easter Marr Aboriginal Corporation (EMAC), which legally represents the area, said that the tree, while majestic, did not appear to have been altered by Aboriginal people for usage in cultural ...

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Importantly, people-tree beliefs systems are very much alive in Aboriginal societies of southeast Australia. Read more: An open letter from 1,200 Australian academics on the Djab Wurrung trees ...

But Aboriginal people continue to suffer from poverty, ill health, substance abuse and incarceration at rates well above the Australian average. A young Djab Wurrung woman with activist allies.

Sap from one tree collected in hollows in the bark, and natural yeast fermented the liquid to an alcoholic drink used by Aboriginal people. Europeans called the tree a cider gum because of the taste.

Researchers are scouring Australia's desert outback to document ancient Aboriginal carvings on massive baobab trees, warning Wednesday that the recently discovered artwork could soon be lost forever.

Floods recorded in Aboriginal oral history centuries ago could help scientists better understand how climate change may ...

A pair of "ghost gum" trees in Australia's outback made famous in watercolors by Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira have been destroyed in a suspected arson attack, shortly before they were due to ...

An Australian court suspended on Thursday work to expand a highway after officials cut down an ancient tree that Aboriginal people said was a sacred "directions tree". Transport officials cut down ...