The Wire

Aboriginal Australians have closely watched the southern skies for thousands of years. We find out how meteorites were explained in oral traditions.

Long before the development of Western science, they observed the movements of celestial bodies like the moon, asteroids and comets, weaving them into dreamtime stories passed down over generations.    Dr Duane Hamacher, a lecturer at the University of New South Wales, has been researching the Aboriginal oral traditions of meteorite craters, and is about to publish a paper on the subject.