First Australians

Aboriginals had the continent to themselves for 50,000 years. Today they make up less than 3 percent of the population, and ...
Phys.org

Ancient mud reveals Australia's burning history over the past 130,000 years—and a way forward in current fire crisis

Increased land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia around 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in half, according to our new study published in Science of fossil pollen trapped ...
Yahoo

Magical reasons ancient indigenous Australians burned grass revealed

Indigenous Australians were burning grass for magic, healing and cursing enemies at least 25,000 years ago, reveals new research. Perfectly preserved "phytolith" plant crystals show that they were ...
Inverse

Ancient Australians May Have Used the Great Barrier Reef to Survive Even Earlier Than We Thought

Pottery was largely unknown in Australia before the recent past, despite well-known pottery traditions in nearby Papua New Guinea and the islands of the western Pacific. The absence of ancient ...
Reuters

Bones of contention - Australia returns ancient Aboriginal remains for outback burial

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The 40,000-year-old remains of an Aboriginal man that prompted a drastic rewrite of Australian history were returned to his ancestral homeland on Friday after four decades of ...
Phys.org

Aboriginal people made pottery, sailed to distant islands thousands of years before Europeans arrived

Pottery was largely unknown in Australia before the recent past, despite well-known pottery traditions in nearby Papua New Guinea and the islands of the western Pacific. The absence of ancient ...
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Australia's Indigenous Population Was 7 Times Larger Than Estimated, Study Finds

(chameleonseye/iStock Editorial/Getty Images Plus) Cultural warning: This article discusses the deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including through disease and frontier violence ...

False claims about Aboriginal rock art and aliens were once fringe. Researchers fear AI could push them mainstream

Archeologists warn AI summaries can repeat false claims about 12,000-year-old rock art from Western Australia’s Kimberley ...
Reuters

Bones of contention: Australia returns ancient Aboriginal remains for outback burial

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The 40,000-year-old remains of an Aboriginal man that prompted a drastic rewrite of Australian history were returned to his ancestral homeland on Friday after four decades of ...