Meteorite Impacts and Australian Aboriginal Geomythology

Paul Heinrich oxytropidoceras at cox.net
Sun Feb 28 00:36:32 EST 2010

1. Hamacher, D.W., and P. P. Norris, 2009, Australian
Aboriginal Geomythology: eyewitness accounts of
cosmic impacts? Archaeoastronomy. vol. ??, No. ??,
pp. ??-??.

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:kqaMcpBN-zEJ:www.warawara.mq.edu.au/aboriginal_astronomy/literature/Aboriginal_Cosmic_Impacts.pdf+Australian+Aboriginal+Geomythology:+eyewitness+accounts+of+cosmic+impacts%3F&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Hamacher, D. W, 2009, Meteorite Falls and Cosmic
Impacts in Australian Aboriginal Mythology. 72nd
Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, held
July 13-18, 2009 in Nancy, France. Published in
Meteoritics and Planetary Science Supplement., p.5005

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2009/pdf/5005.pdf
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009M%26PSA..72.5005H

Duane Willis Hamacher II CURRICULUM VITAE
http://www.warawara.mq.edu.au/pdf/duane_cv.pdf
http://mq.academia.edu/DuaneHamacher

This Vitae lists some other impact related papers:

Hamacher, D.W., and P. P. Norris, 2010, “Falling
Star at Puka”: using Aboriginal oral traditions to
locate undiscovered meteorite falls and impact craters.
In Ilgarijiri – things belonging to the sky, edited by
Ray Norris. Proceedings of the AIATSIS symposium
on Australian Indigenous Astronomy, 27 November
2009, Canberra, Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press.

Hamacher, D.W., C. O’Neill, A. Buchel, and T. R.
Britton, 2010, A newly discovered meteorite crater in
Palm Valley, Central Australia. Meteoritics & Planetary
Science - in preparation

2. Emu Dreaming! - Aboriginal Astronomy
http://www.warawara.mq.edu.au/aboriginal_astronomy/

Literature on Aboriginal Astonomy & Aboriginal Cultures
http://www.warawara.mq.edu.au/aboriginal_astronomy/literature.php

This page includes:

Bevan, A., and P. Bindon, 1996, Australian Aborigines
and Meteorites. Records of the Western Australian
Museum. vol. 18, pp. 93-101.

Also, there is a full length web page about the proposed
Palm Valley impact crater within the Finke Gorge National
Park in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is "“Google,
Dreaming lead to crater discovery” – the REAL story...
from the horse’s mouth" at:

http://www.warawara.mq.edu.au/aboriginal_astronomy/Puka.htm

3. Ray Norris's Publications (complete list)
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rnorris/papers/papers.htm

Norris, R. P., and D. W. Hamacher, 2009, The Astronomy
of Aboriginal Australia. in The Role of Astronomy in Society
and Culture Proceedings, D. Valls-Gabaud and A. Boksenberg,
eds., pp. 10-17. IAU Symposium No. 260, 2009

http://www.warawara.mq.edu.au/aboriginal_astronomy/literature/Norris_Hamacher_2009.pdf

4. Geomythology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_and_geology

Yours,

Paul H.