Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park is located in Australia, North Queensland. Tjapukai Aboriginal Culture is one of the oldest civilizations on Earth, dating back to approximately 60,000 years ago.
There are some traditional arts and culture of the Aboriginal group. These include visual art, literature, songs and dancing.
Rock Art is also a culture which has been around for thousands of years, showing images of animals that extinct around 20,000 to 40,000 years ago. This art tradition is still present mainly as paintings in rock shelters and engravings on exposed rocks. Some of these paintings revealed the great age of Aboriginal culture. As Aborigines did not form cities, their culture was not described as “civilization”. However, it contains all the elements of a civilized world. Examples would be their arts such as the paintings, songs and dances.
Aboriginal literature includes stories, poetry, songs and chants and is usually connected with the traditional life. The Aborigines also have traditional songs that are short and simple and they are usually accompanied with clapping sticks and didgeridoos, hand drums etc.
In addition, dreaming stores are also honored through the performance art of dancing. They could be in the form of solo performances or by groups; closed or open to the audience.
The cultural practice of sharing food and other valued goods are based on reciprocity principles and the Aborigines will share with those people whom he or she received benefits from, in the past and future. Reciprocity also presides over the cultural norms of paying back and squaring up of any misconduct.
Aborigines have complex social and marriage laws that are based on the grouping of the people within their society and also a complex kinship system that looks into three aspects where everyone is related to each other. The three aspects are – (1) the physical structuring of society in terms of numbers, known as a tribe or “language group”, (2) the religious structuring based on beliefs and customs, totems and marriage laws which further divide these people into different subsections and clans and (3) a kinship system that gives a social structuring, allowing each person to be named in relation to one another.
Moreover, there are some rules that the Aborigines have to abide by, which includes the Mother in law rule, also known as the ban on speaking to one’s mother in law. This rule is developed to prevent any disputes or unhappiness between any mother in laws and son and daughter in laws. As such, communication between them must be done through a third person.
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