Australia is the first explorer country in the world
Archaeologists from Western Australia University (Western Australia), Murdoch University and international research team conducted hair sampling of an Aboriginal man (100 years old) from the region. Goldfields, Western Australia, and the results of the experiment show that the man who gradually turned him was a "descendant", derived from an immigration from Africa to Asia.
The study also revealed that the ancestors of Australian aborigines were separated from the world's first modern people leaving Africa, about 64,000 to 75,000 years ago, at least 24,000 years before the events. Other human settlements.
Hair samples of a man who is aboriginal (100 years old) came from the Goldfields area, Western Australia. (Source: sciencedaily.com)
Associate Professor Darren Curnoe, director of the Human Evolutionary Biology Laboratory at the Department of Biology, Earth and Environment at the University of New South Wales, said, 'The study strongly asserts that Australian aborigines are one the oldest living people in the world, in addition to residents in Africa '.
Meanwhile, Professor Alan Cooper, Director of the Ancient DNA Center (ACAD) of Australia at the University of Adelaide, said, 'This discovery has an important step forward but has not solved the problem that still exists today. That is what happened in the years 50,000 years ago when the Australian environment was very harsh at the time. So the geographical isolation and limitations of archaeological data are still the most mysterious thing in Australian history in Australia. '
This study was published on Friday (September 23) in the American Journal of Science.
Indigenous Australians were the first inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands, accounting for more than 2.5% of the current Australian population.
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