How did the aboriginies get to Australia in the first place?

Question

It's pretty far from anywhere else. That's some impressive sailing!

Answer 1

Aborigines reached Australia during the last Glaciations when sea levels were much lower down than they are today and were literally able to walk to Australaia via Papua New Guinea/Indonesia...Then when the ice age ended sea levels rose and they were isolated until europeans arrived a couple of hundred years ago!! Aboringes are thought to have been in Australaia for between 40,000 to 60,000 years!

In relation to the question on sailing across the Pacific..That is a completely different story and occurred much later, but probably more amazing.
A group of people left taiwan (true Taiwanese and not Chinese Taiwanese) and moved east and south populating the Pacfic...they went past Papua New Guinea as there is evidence there is breeding with people and continued over a few thousand years going all the way to Hawiaii, Easter Island and they finally reached New Zealand 1000years ago.......pretty impressive really. There is similarities with parts of the native Taiwanese and many of the pacific languges too.

Answer 2

There was a land bridge between Australia and New Guinea but there has never been a land bridge between Australia or New Guinea and Indonesia. There has always been a water barrier which is why the ancestors of the Aborigines had to have come across by boat or raft.

The water barrier is also the reason why placental mammals didn't reach Australia for the most part and the marsupials stayed there.

Answer 3

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How did the aboriginies get to Australia in the first place?
It's pretty far from anywhere else. That's some impressive sailing!

Answer 4

Now I read about this a few months ago - and yes, it was a pretty epic voyage. Originally from the Indian sub-continent, I think, some ended up in the South Sea Islands, others continued on the Australia, and yet others to NZ.

Answer 5

Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James Cook took possession in the name of Great Britain.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Most of the way they walked, when sea levels were lower. However, there is one strait, between Bali and Lombok in the Indonesian archipelago, that never dried out. They must have used some sort of watercraft to cross it. As the crossing must have been around 50,000 years ago, this pre-dates, by 10s of thousands of years, generally accepted dating for the invention of boats. Very strange.

The bit that didn't dry out is also the Wallace Line which divides Australian and New Guinea species of plants and animals from Asian species.

Answer 8

Hi, they came by canoe.
The fist Aborigine arrived in Western Australia before the Wright brothers were born. Waltz.

Answer 9

I'm not sure but i seen a documentary Many years ago . which claimed to have done DNA tests on aboriginal people and found they matched the DNA of Indian people (from India). their theory was that they may have descended from lost Indian sailors , it also claimed it was nothing like 40,000 years ago it was much later than that ...may only a few thousand year ago....as i said i don't know but sounds plausible to me

Answer 10

It's really not that far from the South end of Asia. Besides, when you think about it, people used to travel much farther than they do now, no matter which origin story you believe in. Personally, I'm a creationist, so I believe that God created two humans in the middle east. From there, everyone travelled to where they are now. Even if you're an evolutionist, you still must believe that two reproducing humans evolved in one place and spread out from there.