How were the aboriginal peoples of Australia related to people in Indonesia and perhaps Southern India?

Question

Is it possible that the aboriginal people in Australia were related to the indonesians and the southern indians (dravidians)?

Answer 1

The first Aboriginal settlers colonized what is now Australia between 40,000 and 80,000 years ago via what is now Papua New Guinea or what is now Indonesia.

Like all civilizations, they destroyed as much of the natural environment as their technology would allow. After they had done this a steady state (sometimes called ecological harmony) resulted.

The Australian environment was very harsh for a low technology people, but they adapted well, and bred up to somewhere between 200,000 and 500,000 people.
Aborigines have occupied Australia for at least forty thousand years. They came originally from southeast Asia, entering the continent from the north. (Present-day Australia, including Tasmania, was then one continent with what is now New Guinea.) Although Aborigines are Homo sapiens, biological isolation has meant that they are not racially closely related to any other people. Because of their relative cultural isolation, Aborigines were forced to develop their own solutions to the problems of human adaptation in the unique and harsh Australian environment. The result was a stable and efficient way of life. Probably because of its effectiveness, the society was slow to change, especially technologically. This gave to Aboriginal Australia the appearance of unchangingness. The archaeological record reveals, however, a number of innovations, among them the earliest known human cremations, some of the earliest rock art, and certainly the first boomerangs, ground axes, and grindstones in the world.




Recent scientific studies have concluded that the Australian Aborigines were the original Americans! In other words, the theory is that ATSI people were adventurers who arrived in the North American continent before the Vikings or Columbus. This theory states that the ancestors of the American Indians. are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. "Separate studies by both Brazilian and US scholars are revealing that the first humans to enter the New World more than 14,000 years ago were not Mongoloid peoples as has always been thought - but were instead people of the same race as present day Australian Aborigines."

Answer 2

I really miss the Ind-Aus series and the way it was played even though the spirit can only be seen by angels. I thing, I want to remind and reminded myself is not to fall to the trap of BCCI and media. Just go back one year at the same time where was India and Pak cricket. It was in shambles being out of WC and not qualified and add to it the death of Pak Coach. Soon came few series of cricket, India winning in Eng and against BD. Then came this Aus tour where everyone was assuming India will loose badly. But it turned out to be a close contest both in Tests and ODI, except for a few. But add to it, all the drama and hype caused by players, media and boards. Include ICC to it. I disagree the rivalry between Pak and India is not there. It is still there and it is a special friendship and rivalry at the same time. Pak players have injuries and specially the main bowlers and also the Indian pace bowlers. I will take the Ind-Pak series any day, any time and it is always played in great interest. What I do not like is the one-sided affairs as we are seeing in SA-Ind series. SA has been dominant so far and Indian bowlers have not come to terms on their own pitches. That is the problem. We do not see any controversies, which is good for the game, but one-sided games are always boring whether it is SA or Aus or Eng or Pak. A close fight even in case of a lost cause is interesting than winning one way all the time. That is what the game is about. Related to umps, let us all give them a break....they deserve more in the Indian hot summer. Pitches and Indian adjusting to their own pitch is the problem. Wait until the Aus come to visit India.

Answer 3

Well thats where the anthropologists etc suggest they came from, via the land bridge during the ice ages. Further to this the dingo was a dog they bought with them and the closest relative of this is in southern asia - thailand I think

Answer 4

i really dont think so. i think the indigenous of australia are their own people with their own individual heritage and beliefs. i havent seen anything to date that would link them. im an aussie but not of indigenous background, maybe there is an aboriginal online that might know more.

Answer 5

yes, but how i don`t know.