The UN grants World Heritage status to an Aboriginal settlement, older than the pyramids, that provides evidence that indigenous Australians developed sophisticated aquaculture thousands of years ago
UNESCO's World Heritage committee, in announcing the addition of Budj Bim to its global listing on Saturday, said the site showed the Gunditjmara had developed"one of the largest and oldest aquaculture networks in the world."
The site also holds evidence of stone dwellings that counter the myth that Aboriginal peoples were simply nomadic hunter-gatherers with no established settlements or sophisticated means of food production. Budj Bim, in Victoria state, is the first site in Australia to receive World Heritage status solely for its Aboriginal cultural importance.
"This landscape, which we have cared for over thousands of years, is so important to Gunditjmara People," she told national broadcaster SBS.
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