Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia

Author(s): Billy Griffiths

Australian History

Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian's inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent.


Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. It investigates a twin revolution: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in the second half of the twentieth century, and the uncovering of the traces of ancient Australia. It explores what it means to live in a place of great antiquity, with its complex questions of ownership.


Product Information

Winner of the NSW Premier's Book of the Year Award 2019

Billy Griffiths is the author of The China Breakthrough and co-editor with Mike Smith of The Australian Archaeologist's Book of Quotations. He is a research fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation.

General Fields

  • : 9781760640446
  • : Black Inc.
  • : Black Inc.
  • : August 2017
  • : Australia
  • : February 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Billy Griffiths
  • : Paperback
  • : 2018
  • : 392