What did Australian Aborigines eat?

Answer 1

What the Australian Aborigines ate depended on where they lived. If they lived in desert areas they usually ate meat such as snakes, goannas and Birds of Prey, and also learned how to best use the desert plants. However, if they lived in more arable areas they ate plant parts such as fruits, berries, tubers and roots. Coastal aborigines were skilled fishermen, and they also dined on fruit bats.

Aborigines were skilled, clever and stealthy hunters, learning to not only throw a spear with deadly accuracy, but also how to trap animals. There is some evidence that they also engaged in some agricultural practices (though obviously not the grains that the Europeans brought with them).

Other foods included: witchetty grubs, water lily, kangaroo, emu, wild honey, yams, roots kelp, berries, small animals, salmon, honey ants, lizards, berries, water snakes, eel and edible flowers.

Answer 2

What the Australian Aborigines ate depended on what part of the country they lived in. Those along the coast speared fish and dugongs. Further inland the people drugged the waterholes so that they could catch emus to eat.