Aboriginal hair shows 50,000 year connection to Australia

Rockshelter at Bathurst Head (Thartali) in eastern Cape York Peninsula, occupied by the expedition during field work.

Pictured: Norman Tindale and local Aboriginal group [Credit: Herbert Hale. February 1927]

Map of field stations visited from 1921 to 1965Map showing the locations where the series of Board for Anthropological

Research expeditions visited [Credit: South Australian Museum Archives Norman Tindale Collection]

Modern Aboriginal Australians are the descendants of a single founding population that arrived in Australia

50,000 years ago, while Australia was still connected to New Guinea. Populations then spread rapidly

- within 1500-2000 years - around the east and west coasts of Australia, meeting

somewhere in South Australia [Credit: University of Adelaide]

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