![]() As he writes: “Beneath a thin veneer, the evidence of ancient Australia is everywhere, a pulsing presence.” ![]() Back then, to the general public, Australia’s history didn’t seem worth searching for in the same ways as that of Britain or the Middle East.īut recently Billy Griffith’s ‘vivid, evocative prose’ has absolutely changed my perspective on Australia’s history and pre-history. I flew into Sydney as a ten pound Pom in 1963. Sometimes the conclusions the Time Team came to seemed a little far-fetched, but I was still fascinated by the amount of history that could be deduced from artifacts recovered from a carefully excavated site. My archaeological education was almost entirely through the British TV Channel 4’s Time Team with commentator Tony Robinson. Rachel Matthews reviews Billy Griffiths’s 2018 book Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia ![]()
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