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Ancient village raises Australian Aboriginal nomad questions

We're told that Australia's aborigines were nomads, yet the Gunditjmara people of Western Victoria claim their ancestors lived in a village. They had eel farms, and even an eel industry, which exported produce across the country. If this is true, it would challenge our current understanding of aboriginal history.
Archaeologist Dr Heather Builth set out to investigate the Gunditjmara's claims. Remarkably, she found a great deal of evidence to support them. The remains of hundreds of huts, more than 75 square kilometres of artificial channels and ponds for farming eels, and smoking trees for preserving the eels for export to other parts of Australia.