Australian Bark Shield
A History of the World in 100 Objects
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The Origins of Aboriginal Australia
The living around Sydney and the Sydney region was very good. The fish levels in the harbors were high, there's diaries out of the first and second fleet of Europeans pulling in nets full of fish. Cook and Banks would later remark on how happy and contented the people seemed. As well as the shield the men had spears, and indeed the hole here in the centre of this shield was made by a wooden spear or lance,. presumably in the course of a fight.
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