It's the Ancients on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's podcast

where we're talking all about indigenous Australia. We're going to be focusing in on archaeology

on several sites and what these sites can tell us about indigenous Australians, their heritage,

their culture and how they've been able to live on the continent of Australia for hundreds

for thousands of years. It's absolutely remarkable. But we're also going to be focusing in on

epistemologies, on world views, on this idea particularly of caring for country and conserving

these incredibly important indigenous sites in Australia today. Now joining me to talk

through all of this. I was delighted to get on the podcast Dave

Johnston, an indigenous archaeologist currently based in Canberra. Dave is a wonderful chap. He was

great to get him on the pod. He also recently starred in the documentary on History Hit, all about

indigenous Australia, a history of indigenous Australia which you can check out today on History

Hit TV. But without further ado, to talk all about indigenous Australian archaeology and so much more,

here's Dave. Dave, great to have you on the podcast brother. Thank you so much for taking the time

to come on the show. Tristan, absolutely pleasure, my friend. Yeah, looking forward to sharing some

views of Aboriginal Australia. Absolutely. I mean, indigenous Australians, they have a history

not just stretching back thousands of years but tens of thousands of years. Time in memorial,

as we say Tristan. And I think first of all Dave, for all of this, a welcome to country. Would you

like to lead the way with this? Yeah, thanks. So folks, when discussing all visiting places in

Australia or communities, it is custom for our elders or the particular side of area to welcome

guests to do what we call a welcome to country. So just in a general, if this is going around the

world, I can in a capacity, a generalist one say welcome to listening to my and suddenly my view

of the history or ancient history or the archaeology of Aboriginal Australia. But firstly, what I do is

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