aboriginal peoples invented tools like the boomerang and spear. there is also evidence that the aboriginal people used farming methods. tradition was very important in their lives. their religion is called the dreamtime, which has lots of stories about the creation of the world by spirits. aboriginal art started at least 30,000 years ago and there are lots of dreaming stories painted on walls and cut in rocks all around australia. aboriginal music has songs about the dreamtime, sometimes with special instruments like the didgeridoo.