Link to Australian Geographic 8 March 2017 Gemma Conroy
on more proof of connection to country... 50,000 years proven through DNA of hair samples
“These findings confirm what the Aboriginal community have known all along - that their deep ties with country stretch back thousands of years,” said study co-author Raymond Tobler, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Adelaide.
Link to Australian Geographic 23 Sept 2011
'researchers found that the ancestors of Australian Aboriginals had
split from the first modern human populations to leave Africa, 64,000 to
75,000 years ago. Dr Joe Dortch, a scientist at UWA, says the
discovery turns on its head the existing theory that Aboriginals arrived
here less than 50,000 years ago. The findings are detailed today in
the journal
Science.'
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| Map of field stations visited from 1921 to 1965. (From South Australian Museum Archives Norman Tindale Collection) |