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**Dweplyododo** · 10-11-2006, 07:12 PM

Originally posted by GePap
The Aborigene in Australia. They have no history per say, but they have been a distinct cultural and racial group for probably 10,000 years or more. Pardon???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australian

The exact timing of the arrival of the ancestors of the Indigenous Australians has been a matter of dispute among archaeologists. The most generally accepted date for first arrival is between 40,000 - 50,000 years BP. A 48,000 BC date is based on a few sites in northern Australia dated using thermoluminescence. A large number of sites have been radiocarbon dated to around 38,000 BC, leading some researchers to doubt the accuracy of the thermoluminescence technique. Some estimates have been given as widely as from 30,000 to 68,000 BC.

Humans reached Tasmania approximately 40,000 years ago by migrating across a land bridge from the mainland that existed during the last ice age.

Stone tools also found at Lake Mungo have been estimated, based on stratigraphic association to be about 50,000 years old. Since Lake Mungo is in south-eastern Australia, many archaeologists have concluded that humans must have arrived in north-west Australia at least several thousand years earlier.

And I'm just going to leave the "no history" bit where I found it.

10-11-2006, 07:12 PM	#5
Dweplyododo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 539 Senior Member	Originally posted by GePap The Aborigene in Australia. They have no history per say, but they have been a distinct cultural and racial group for probably 10,000 years or more. Pardon??? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australian The exact timing of the arrival of the ancestors of the Indigenous Australians has been a matter of dispute among archaeologists. The most generally accepted date for first arrival is between 40,000 - 50,000 years BP. A 48,000 BC date is based on a few sites in northern Australia dated using thermoluminescence. A large number of sites have been radiocarbon dated to around 38,000 BC, leading some researchers to doubt the accuracy of the thermoluminescence technique. Some estimates have been given as widely as from 30,000 to 68,000 BC. Humans reached Tasmania approximately 40,000 years ago by migrating across a land bridge from the mainland that existed during the last ice age. Stone tools also found at Lake Mungo have been estimated, based on stratigraphic association to be about 50,000 years old. Since Lake Mungo is in south-eastern Australia, many archaeologists have concluded that humans must have arrived in north-west Australia at least several thousand years earlier. And I'm just going to leave the "no history" bit where I found it.
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