The Memory Code: The traditional Aboriginal memory technique that unlocks the secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and ancient monuments the world over

Any normal supervisor would have pointed out that I had a PhD scholarship for my original topic and a publisher interested in publishing it. To abandon all that to chase some wild idea when I didn’t even have a background in archaeology was clearly foolhardy. Sue Martin, however, was not a normal supervisor.

Boscawen-Un is more of an oval than a circle, averaging about 24 metres in diameter

The songlines discussed here and the range of portable devices I will describe all meld naturally into a system which is far more complex to describe than it is to use. I don’t understand why I am never confused by drawing information from a whole range of memory spaces, but I am not. After a few years of adding data and commentary, stories and myt

This knowledge is not varied. It is sacred.

Why hadn’t I been taught these methods at school? After a year or so, I was starting to see patterns in the information even though I was not actively searching for them. I found my stories starting to take on the form of the indigenous stories I’d read from all over the world. I was seeing familiar knowledge in a different way—vivid, visual and em

These silos of generic information are an artefact of literacy, where so much is written and research is so focused that much of the interconnectedness of the human experience is lost.

Just as with indigenous cultures and their landscape journeys, more and more knowledge can be added as I am initiated higher and higher in my journey.

taro. In fact, these spells encapsulated a range of knowledge about the cultivation of the crop at each stage, knowledge that was restricted to the elders through using archaic language for the chants.

Curiosity and the desire for knowledge for knowledge’s sake is a human trait, not a Western one.