AC9HH7K06 Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor the social organisation and cultural practices of early First Nations Australians, and their continuity and change over time

Elaborations

• • Elaboration examining the social organisation systems of First Nations Australians, such as moieties, totems and kinship groups, and how they determine roles and relationships to others, including how they underpin marriage laws, and their development and significance in areas such as Central Australia during increasing desertification
• • Elaboration examining how aspects of social organisation and cultural practices of early First Nations Australians are known because they have been passed on through oral traditions and supported by media such as song, dance, music and visual art representations such as rock paintings; for example, narratives or visual representations related to lore, kinship structures, and responsibilities to the land, seas, waterways, sky and universe
• • Elaboration investigating important cultural practices of early First Nations Australians and their continuity and change over time; for example, lore, rites of passage, and the antiquity and types of funerary customs and burial practices such as the early example of cremation at the Willandra Lakes in New South Wales, the tombstone openings of the Torres Strait Islands and the log coffins used by the Yolngu Peoples of Arnhem Land
• • Elaboration exploring the existence of defined land, sea and sky territories, and the social and political systems that governed early First Nations Australians’ societies, such as land tenure systems, delineation and reciprocal access rights, and the trade and bartering of items such as ochre, medicine and trepang