Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify the characteristics of Aboriginal cultural landscapes on Country
- Aboriginal cultural landscapes and associated sites and features of cultural significance are accurately identified
- The concept of lore/law in the land is determined and applied
- Aboriginal cultural landscapes in ecological and archaeological terms, Aboriginal cultural language and spiritual terms, and traditional Aboriginal economic terms are identified
- Investigate cultural and historical records of an Aboriginal cultural landscape
- Traditional understanding of the cycle of the seasons and meteorological phenomena, and of landform and vegetation Community types in a cultural landscape are researched
- Environmental cultural knowledge, cultural connections and relationships with the landscape that are passed down generationally are determined
- Identify Aboriginal cultural values links to cultural landscapes
- Cultural landscapes and links with Aboriginal cultural and Community knowledge are identified
- Creation stories, oral histories, kinship and totemic relationships to the cultural landscape are recounted
- Gender access, roles and usage as this relates to the cultural landscape are identified
- Aboriginal cultural values in cultural landscapes are identified
- Links between archaeological evidence to cultural landscapes are determined
- Indicators in the landscape that reveal traditional Aboriginal land management practices are identified
- Describe Aboriginal cultural practices and beliefs which maintain cultural connections to cultural landscapes
- The identification by cultural authorities of appropriate persons within Communities who hold cultural knowledge is performed
- Appropriate Cultural Knowledge holders and/or Cultural Manager for an Aboriginal cultural landscape are identified
- The range and interrelationship of Aboriginal beliefs and Aboriginal cultural and ceremonial practices that maintain connection with the cultural landscape are researched and recounted
- The associations of connection to Country through language, stories, song, dance and art is documented if appropriate
- Appropriate measures to ensure adequate cultural maintenance of the cultural landscape are determined