History of Aborigines in Australia

Aborigines in Australia are very well known across the world. Did you know that are many facts related to them that are very popular and well known.

For example the age of a primitive skull that has been brought from Bega district in New South Wales, is around more than a million years.

It was around 120,000 years ago that the pollen and charcoal of this region is, and there is proof to suggest that people use fire to keep the land clean in the basin of Lake George in the southern plateau of New South Wales .

The Lake Mungo here is more than 68,000 years ago, and there are human remains which are found here as also many ancient camp sites.

There is evidence that shows that there was a rock shelter here which was used by the people in the region called Arnhem Land. This lies around 400 kms to the east of a place called Darwin lying in the Northern Territory. There is also proof to show that red ochre and stone tools were used to paint the bodies and the rocks.

There are many engravings on rocks here in South Australia and these are said to be the earliest petrogylphs.

There is lot of archaeological evidence that shows that the aboriginal people have been inhabiting the Southeastern part of Australia for example the regions like the Lake Mungo National park in New South Wales for more than 40,000 years.

Fireplaces that are so common place today took their origin here in the lake Mungo national Park some 30,700 years ago. Around the same period, there were aborigines living in the Keilor region lying around 20 kms from Melbourne in the Victoria region of Australia.

Bread is the breakfast menu for many across the world. The oldest proof of bread being made in this region is from the Cuddy Springs which is a very old lake situated between the River Macquarie and Marra Creek in a place near Carinda in the western part of New south Wales.

Around this time there were many aborigines who used to dominate the earlier existent Willandra Lakes System here. There is proof to show signs of creative and spiritual existence here along with traces of technology in relation to aboriginal culture.

There is a place called Devil’s Lair which is in the southernmost portion of Australia. This is a place where many aborigines have been living and there is proof for this. They have left a lot of bone tool artifacts which are inclusive of the special bone heads of macropod shin bones. This cave shows proof of occupation from around 6000 BP.

The aboriginal history of Australia also has traces of bones belonging to around 26,000 years back. These have been discovered in sediment in the Willandra Lakes Region again in the New South Wales region. There is a body of a female that has been discovered which is the earliest evidence of the process of cremation of bodies here.

Aborigines have been living in the Malangangarr in the Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory and they have shown proofs of having ground edge grooved axes. Today Australian technology is world class and ranks first in the entire world.

There is lot of proof of existence of aborigines in the deep caves in the Nullarbor Plain at the western side of the southern part of Australia. This lies around 50 km from the ocean. It is seen that aborigines have mined for flint and have left wonderful designs in these cave walls.