The Australian Aborigines deserve high praise as the world's greatest explorers, having been the first human beings to venture beyond Africa and then made their way along the southern edge of Asia all the way to Australia.
That’s been revealed by DNA analysis on a lock of hair 88 years old, which found that they were the first humans out of Africa about 70,000 years ago.
Researchers looked at the hair sample, collected by British anthropologist Alfred Haddon during a train journey in the Western Australian outback, because they wanted to find someone of 100 per cent aboriginal descent.
Haddon had clipped the hair from the head of a young Aborigine with his permission and taken it to England, where it remained in three successive Cambridge University museums.
It is considered to be almost completely uncontaminated with DNA from any other ethnic populations, ancient or modern.
From that hair the international team of scientists sequenced the man’s genome. And it has helped rewrite the history of early human migration.
That long, long ago mass migration out of Africa across vast stretches of southern Asia to Australia by a bold race of early modern humans was followed thousands of years later by a second wave of African emigrants.
An archaeologist at the University of Western Australia, one of several Australians who contributed to the research, said the work is significant because it shows the timeline for people in Australia is more than 50,000 years.
Dr Joe Dortch believes the finding will foster a sense of pride in modern Australian Aborigines.
"No-one else in the world can say 'I am descended from people who have been here 75,000 years'."
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white man has been more places than Aboriginals
Bull shit white man has been more places than Aboriginals from the North pole to the south pole and into space white man even worked out how to check DNA you are full of shit if you think Aboriginals are better explorers than whitey name one place white man has not been and I will name over a thousand places Aboriginals have not been .
you've proven gerry correct!
jesus, racism is here and then you characters take gerry down for pointing out racism, i think you've proven gerry correct!
What wave are so called "refugees"?
>>That long, long ago mass migration out of Africa across vast stretches of southern Asia to Australia by a bold race of early modern humans was followed thousands of years later by
a “second wave” of African emigrants.
Re: Aborigines the world’s greatest explorers
White man is the greatest explorer Fact. How much of the ocean or outer space have the Aboriginals explored? am I a racist for pointing out the truth or are you just patronising the Aboriginal people?
That Gerry hates white man look at everything he writes is anti white man he is a Racist that quotes peoples skin colours Shame on Gerry I just quote facts
Re: Aborigines the world’s greatest explorers
White man have been in Space and may be the moon too have the Aboriginals? no of course not that is why white man is the greatest explorere.
Can someone explain how this comment is racist because it keeps getting deleted.The censorship on indymedia is as bad as in China WTF
Racist if you want racist look at all Gerry's anti white man statements
"Aboriginal Elite" are seeking to “Hijack” the Aboriginal Agenda
“Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”
"Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were involved in campaigning for, and drafting, the Declaration " Commissioner Gooda said.
This is “ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT” !!
There is a lot of “Condemnation” and “Ridicule” of these so called, “Government Appointees” by the “Aboriginal Victim Industry” ( AVI ) when it “Suits” them.
This does not seem to be the case with Mick Gooda or his predecessor Tom Calma.( !? )
It was Showcased, Floated, Displayed, Lobbied for and "In Essence", "Flogged" !! This "Declaration". Mainly to the “Converted” or, fellow AVI.
The drafts of the “Declaration” would have been done by a lot of African, South American and Asian Delegates. People that come from some Well Documented, Terrible Living Conditions. To a large extent,"These" are the People that the "Declaration" and Principles would have been Conceived, Agreed to and Produced for. "Not" with "Us" in mind. So it would Hardly be Likely that we could have made or had "Any Influence Whatsoever" !! This so called “Campaining" for and "Drafting” of was no more than PR Exercise !! There would have been "Nothing" that “Needed “ to be "Changed". Or "Altered" !!.They would have had everything covered !! Experts !! They had years to do it !! And with at least, some of the Best Brains "Out of Africa" !! The African Countries have never taken us seriously. All the years that we have been going over to the UN complaining, “Not One” has ever backed or supported us. Or seen to be. And it is not likely to change. These people going over there complaining of Income Management, "Many hundreds of Millions" of people from these African Countries, and Others, don't even know what an Income is !! With “Ten Billion Dollars” a year “Allocated to Aboriginal Affairs”. That's more than the GNP of Most of these Countries !! These other “Delegates” or their Advisors, they would be aware of this !! Five Hundred dollars ( $500 ) a fortnight minimum here, to every Black-fella in Australia !!
This "New Set of Rules", this "Declaration",
the “Aboriginal Elite” or, "Neo- Mission Managers”, are seeking to Force and to Impose it upon, not only us "Other Black-fellas", but the “Whole Country” !!
The "Aboriginal Elite" are seeking to “Hijack” the Aboriginal Agenda.
( First draft.edited. alb. Work in Progress !! )
For updates, WGAR News: "The Intervention is killing our people" - IRAG media release. 15/9 2011. Indymedia.
Or, www.whitc.info alb. 29/9/2011
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What you can't get you destroy and make others' lives miserable
ALL OF A SUDDEN WERE ALL FROM AFRICA, IF WE WERE A WHITE RACE LIVING HERE, THEY WOULD SAY OH; YOUR FROM ROME OR ENGLAND,HA, HA, HA, HA, AH YOU PEOPLE ARE FULL OF IT. AND THAT WOULD BE OKAY BECAUSE WERE ALL WHITE?
WERE DO YOU PEOPLE COME FROM AND WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO SAY THESE RACIST REMARKS.
GOD GAVE US THIS LAND WITH A COVENANT THAT WAS MADE MANY MANY YEARS BEFORE YOU DECIDED TO HAVE YOUR SAY. WHY DON'T YOU PEOPLE MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS AND CLEAN YOUR OWN BACK YARD BEFORE YOU LOOK IN MY BEAUTYFULL COUNTRY. GOES TO SHOW THAT WHAT YOU CAN'T GET YOU WILL DESTROY AND MAKE OTHER PEOPLES LIVES MISERABLE BECAUSE YOUR LIFE IS WORTH NOTHING.