Interesting Facts about Aboriginal Tribe, Indigenous Australians
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VIVA – Aboriginal people are the original inhabitants of Australia. Aboriginal people are not a homogeneous, but rather the various groups that make up the culture on the Australian continent. The existence of this Aboriginal tribe before the arrival of white people to Australia.
Aboriginal people have lived on the Australian continent for about 50,000 years. A total of 250 languages ??and 600 different dialects are spoken by Aboriginal people scattered throughout Australia.
There are two groups, namely the Aboriginal tribes who inhabited Australia after the British colonized the island in 1788. Then, the inhabitants of the islands in the Torres Strait. These residents also live in Queensland, the states of Australia, and Papua New Guinea.
They hail from Melanesia, which has a different culture from the Aborigines on the main continent. Well, here are interesting facts about the Aboriginal tribe that people need to know.
1. The Origin or Aboriginal Tribe
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At first, the Aboriginal tribes in Australia came from Asia and then moved to the islands in Southeast Asia. Then, this tribe settled on the Australian continent for 45,000-50,000 years. As quoted from the journal britannica.com, some researchers claim that early humans existed around 65,000 to 80,000 years ago.
Some experts move modern humans out of Africa, to West Asia to South to Southeast Asia. Before the Europeans in 1788, Aboriginal people could adapt to the temperate, tropical, and desert climates of Australia. Aboriginal tribes first hunted and gathered food.
Then scientists discovered Aboriginal farming practices. This tribe formed groups to collect food for necessities.
2. Social of Aboriginal Tribe
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The Aboriginal tribe is classified into a separate race, namely Australoid. This race has a wealth of negroid tribes living in Africa and Papua.
Aboriginal people are characterized by brown skin color and tend to be black due to exposure to sunlight, curly hair, body overgrown with a lot of hair, and not too tall. Each place inhabited by Aboriginal tribes has different characteristics. For example; in tradition, language, and dialect.
