Australia During The Pre-Colonial Era

During the Pre-Colonial era, Australia has only oral traditions consisted of tales, myths, and legends passed on by word of mouth or by artistic representations on rocks, caves, and other possible repositories of early literary attempts. Given so, there is no way for the indigenous Australians to preserve their early literary outputs because there is no system of writing yet. Ironically, the first literary accounts from the pre-colonial period actually come not from the aborigines but from the journals of early European explorers.