Aborigines
The Aborigines are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and their descendants identified. The Aboriginal word comes from the Latin ab origine which originate means, so the original inhabitants .
According to the theories are there about 50,000 years ago Aboriginal people arrived from Southeast Asia (like the American Indians). At that time the sea level much lower than now, yet they using a vessel reached the continent. Even with a fall in sea level of 150 meters, there would be some straits of about 100 km wide to be overcome. In the ice age could not “dry feet” from Indonesia to Australia.
Traditional lifestyles
They were hunters and nomads . They lived in groups of 40 or so people who had their own land. In the Australian outback, where food was less, the groups consisted of no more than twenty people. The groups had contact with each other. Once in the year exceeded the Aborigines of New South Wales as another example, the moths flew out. They were caught and eaten as a delicacy. The Aborigines used this time not only to celebrate but also to perform ceremonies, ritual fights to keep marriages. These Aborigines were so moth hunters said.
The Aborigines had no bows and arrows , but did use the boomerang and the ‘ Woomera , an attachment to the javelin. They did not meet agriculture . However, they practiced a considerable influence on the surrounding nature by periodic years of certain areas of the bush in a controlled manner to burn down. This gave new generations the opportunity to grow plants. The Aborigines had little contact with the outside world. There were contacts between aboriginestammen in the northwest of Australia and residents of the islands that became Indonesia belong. Through the Torres Strait were gradually contacts between Australia and New Guinea , where agriculture would have arisen around 7000 BC. They therefore have little or no technology and practices adopted from other nations. They apparently had enough of fish and crustaceans to live and were not about to cultivate crops. The men are traditionally the hunters. The women gather berries and other edible plant materials. These women represent the knowledge of plants on to their daughters. The men traditionally prepare the food.
Many notes that certain aspects of current society and culture in Australia refer back to a world of 45,000 to 60,000 years old, aspects everywhere else in the world were lost or replaced. When the first settlers arrived late 18th century, lived between 315,000 and 750,000 people. In 2006 the number of Indians by the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated at 517,200, only 2.5% of the total population of Australia. Not only disease reduced their number but also by the brazen killings by British pioneers . Often these were prisoners who were exiled to Australia, but may supposedly civilized British