New discovery about the first 'migrants' to Australia

According to a study published Jan. 15, the Indian subcontinent brought both Dingo who migrated to the Australian continent and lived together with the Aboriginal people since 4,000 years ago.

Continental Australia

After analyzing the genetic variation from the Australian Aboriginal genome, New Guinea, Southeast Asian and Indian, researchers at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) discovered out: "the important gene flow between Indian and Australian aboriginal people about 4,000 years ago".

Researcher Irina Pugach said this time also coincided with many changes in Australia's archaeological report, such as the sudden change in the stone tool manufacturing technique and the cultivation process as well as the appeared the first Dingo dog fossil pattern in this continent. She concluded that these changes may be related to immigration activities about 4,000 years ago.

The Australian continent is said to have never been discovered until Europeans first arrived at the end of the 1700s.