Their culture thus predates by tens of thousands of years the building of the pyramids in Egypt a mere 4,500 years ago. At Keilor near Melbourne a 31,OOO years old Aboriginal camp has been found. People then hunted wombat-like creatures, today wild pig sized animals, then as big as rhinoceroses as well as ten foot high kangaroos. These became extinct many thousand years ago but they are still remembered in Aboriginal history told from generation to generation Before the British came there were some 500 Aborginal nations, many of whom have now been wiped out, and as many languages. There was no special castes of priests or centralised systems of authority.
Aborigines have a special connection with everything that is natural.
Aborigines see themselves as part of nature. We see all things natural as part of us. All things on earth we see as part human. This is told through the idea of dreaming. These dreaming creatures were connected to special places and special roads or tracks or paths.