The lectures on Australian Aboriginal sacred landscapes can form part of a course, or individual lectures can be integrated into new or existing courses. Since at least 40,000 BCE the Australian Aboriginal peoples have engaged with the landscape by marking it as a sacred creation of the Dreamings, ancestral supernatural creator spirits that created the world in a primordial age called Dreamtime. For at least 40 millennia Aboriginal groups embellished the ground, cliffs, hills, and their bodies with imagery that encodes notions about Dreamtime, identity, social mores, laws, kinship, and territory. This artistic tradition can be understood through the universal genre of rock art. The first lecture concerns the Aborigines’ arrival from Polynesia to Australia ca. 40 millennia ago and the earliest extant rock art. Subsequent lectures each concern Aboriginal art in Australian provinces, and focus on dwelling in and experiencing landscape as well as religious beliefs and sacred locations that were refurbished annually within a ritual matrix. Because the Aborigines were nomadic hunter-gatherers, their lifeways and conception of landscape offer correctives to Western ideas about the effica...