(Reuters) - Key dates, facts in the history of Australia's Aborigines. * Carbon dating of rock paintings suggests Aborigines have been living in Australia for at least 40,000 years. * 1770 - English ...

Archaeologists exploring the waters near Western Australia’s Murujuga are finding ancient sites a short dive below the sea’s surface Clare Watson, Hakai Magazine Archaeologists exploring the submerged ...

The known timeline of the Aboriginal occupation of South Australia's Riverland region has been vastly extended by new research. Radiocarbon dating of shell middens - remnants of meals eaten long ago - ...

Historic hair samples collected from Aboriginal people show that following an initial migration 50,000 years ago, populations spread rapidly around the east and west coasts of Australia. Our research, ...

Bruce Pascoe’s book “Dark Emu” sparked a reconsideration of Australian history. Now he hopes to use his writing to revive Aboriginal community. By Damien Cave WALLAGARAUGH, Australia — Bruce Pascoe ...

Stephen Gapps is an Historian with Artefact Heritage Services and a member of The Greens. Lynda-June Coe is a current member of the Greens NSW. Note of warning: This article refers to deceased ...

What killed the Tasmanian Aborigines? When British colonists arrived in 1803, the island’s indigenous people numbered a few thousand. Thirty years later, about 100 remained. Most historians blame ...

Since 1977 the journal Aboriginal History has pioneered interdisciplinary historical studies of Australian Aboriginal people’s and Torres Strait Islander’s interactions with non-Indigenous peoples. It ...

Go to Australia, but set your sights North. Keep going past the city lights, past the oddly common giant fruit statuary on the side of the road, keep going until it’s so red around you that it will ...

Voices of our Elders includes the stories of more than 20 Indigenous people from around the Limestone Coast. Author Charlotte Lovett was approached to collate the stories, after working on ...

Humans used the now-destroyed rockshelter throughout the last ice age until just a few decades ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...