"Dr Shane Woods a young archaeologist is working on his first independent dig in Central Australia, when he finds among the remains of an ancient camp-fire a large bone upon which is engraved an unusual ritual scene of two figures standing arms outstretched, completely surrounded by a serpent in the shape of a sun-disk. Could this be evidence of a pre-historic belief system? Was this the earliest evidence of the "Dreaming,"a time before time itself, when the divine Sky Spirits had created the earth and mankind?

Next he discovers what he considers to be tangible evidence of aboriginal...