As of April 2020, he is a lecturer at Deakin University in Victoria, and Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH). It is about a slow shift in national consciousness: the deep time dreaming that has changed the way many of us relate to this continent and its enduring, dynamic human history. Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia. Billy Griffiths, also known as William Griffiths, is an Australian historian and writer, known for his book Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia (2018). Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. But the first Australians were voyaging into the unknown. A dense cloud of migrating birds may have pointed the way. Smoke billowing above the sea spoke of a land that lay beyond the horizon. It explores what it means to live in a place of great antiquity, with its complex questions of ownership and belonging. People would have known about Australia before they saw it. It investigates a twin revolution: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in the second half of the twentieth century, and the uncovering of the traces of ancient Australia. Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. Equipped with a historian's inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent. Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. People would have known about Australia before they saw it.

Deep Time Dreaming by Billy Griffiths