Astronomers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization (CSIRO) of Australia, Professor Ray Norris said the knowledge about the stars have been derived from generation to generation by Aboriginal people for thousands of years in the form of traditional songs and stories.
"There are many stories about space, songs, legends and myths," says Norris.
After doing further research, Norris found that these people use the sky as the navigation to determine the time and mark the seasons.
Through his research, he managed to reveal the detail of thought astronomy tribe.
"Obviously, some thinkers at that time hiding behind the bushes, watching the eclipse and find out how it works,"said Norris.
Later thinkers were to change their thinking into the song and ceremony.
"According to their story, solar eclipses are women and men who are having sex moon."
Currently, Norris is looking for evidence to determine when Aboriginal people become astronomers.
Norris look for evidence of markers of important events in the recording of this ancient Aboriginal astronomy, such as events fall of the meteor or comet sightings, to give a time frame that civilization's lifetime.
He is convinced, astronomers Aborigines existed long before the people in Europe began to observe the sky, as seen from the archaeological relics at Stonehenge, England, dating from the era of 3500 BC or roughly at the same time with a giant pyramid of civilization in Egypt.
"We knew their astronomy, what we do not know is since when they started"
"If this starts 10 thousand or 20 thousand years ago, the astronomers of the tribe is a tribe Aborogin first astronomer in the world," he said.
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