Australia

Sand Origin

Silver Sands, Aldinga Beach

Random Sand Fact

Can you think with sand?

In Aboriginal cultures, knowledge has long been passed on through images drawn on the ground. Tyson Yunkaporta, of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland, calls the practice sand talk.

In a 2019 book of the same name, he turns it into a way of thinking: seeing patterns and connections with a stick in hand and the ground as the board.

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