The spread of people to Australia Archaeological evidence shows that modern humans had reached South-east Asia by 70,000 years ago and that they had spread to Australia by at least 50,000 years ago. Photographer: Christopher Langeluddecke © Australian Museum Business Services Origins of the First Australians The viewpoints about the origins of these peoples are entangled with the wider debate regarding the origins of all modern humans. The two main viewpoints are: The ‘Out of Africa’ model The most widely accepted viewpoint is that the first humans to colonise Australia came from a recent migration of Homo sapiens through South-east Asia. The ‘Multiregional’ model Some scientists interpret the variation found in the fossil record of early Indigenous Australians as evidence that Australia was colonised by two separate genetic lineages of modern humans. The Asian Connection Modern humans had reached Asia by 70,000 years ago before moving down through South-east Asia and into Australia. Key fossil finds from Asia include Rock art
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Australian Explorers and Exploration Home Search Site Contact Us Site Map Our FREE ebooks Help to download and convert files on this site Project Gutenberg Australia gratefully acknowledges the significant contribution of Sue Asscher in preparing many of the eBooks relating to Australian Explorers, which are available from this page. Australian Explorers, Discoverers and Pioneers (including exploration of Antarctica) Introduction The First Fleet of ships from England arrived in Sydney in 1788. When, in 1813, a way across the Blue Mountains was found, a wave of inland exploration was unleashed which continued for the next fifty years. A number of Project Gutenberg volunteers in Australia have transcribed these Australian exploration journals and most are now available at Project Gutenberg, including a a number of HTML versions, with illustrations and maps from the original publications. On this page: List of Australian land and sea explorers with links to their biographical details and their journals. From this site: ^Top of Page
Aboriginal Desert Art 00:00:00:00Text on screen - 'Viewer Advice. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following media resource may contain images and voices of people who have died.' A map of Australia. Explorers of Australia James Cook (October 27, 1728- February 14, 1779) was a British explorer and astronomer who went on many expeditions to the Pacific Ocean, Antarctic, Arctic, and around the world. Cook's first journey was from 1768 to 1771, when he sailed to Tahiti in order to observe Venus as it passed between the Earth and the Sun (in order to try to determine the distance between the Earth and the Sun). During this expedition, he also mapped New Zealand and eastern Australia. Cook's second expedition (1772-1775) took him to Antarctica and to Easter Island. Cook's last expedition (1776-1779) was a search for a Northwest Passage across North America to Asia. Cook was the first ship's captain to stop the disease scurvy (now known to be caused by a lack of vitamin C) among sailors by providing them with fresh fruits. For more information on James Cook, click here.
Meet Uluru’s traditional owners More info Copyright Metadata © Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Education Services Australia Ltd 2012 (except where otherwise indicated). Digital content © Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2012 (except where otherwise indicated). Video © Australian Broadcasting Corporation (except where otherwise indicated). Text © Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Education Services Australia is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). Cite this You can use this information to reference this item. Bibliographic details for 'Meet Uluru’s traditional owners': ABC Behind the News, 'Meet Uluru’s traditional owners', ABC Splash
The many uses of indigenous plants 00:00:00:00Text on screen - 'Viewer Advice. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following media resource may contain images and voices of people who have died.' A group of Indigenous people distribute and plant native plants in Australian coastal bushland. Text on screen - 'The Towra Team. Clarence Slockee.'00:00:16:19CLARENCE SLOCKEE:These young people are called the Towra Team. They're a group of trainees learning to take care of the land and their culture here on the southern shore of Kamay Botany Bay National Park, about an hour south of Sydney.00:00:27:07A parks officer, Dean Kelly, gestures at the ground of a small clearing.00:00:27:07DEAN KELLY:Well, we might plant a couple of wattles here 'cause this one's struggling a little bit.00:00:33:03CLARENCE SLOCKEE:Dean Kelly is a parks officer and mentor for the group.00:00:36:14Dean Kelly is interviewed.