No new information really. This has been known for a long time.
Australian people have DNA close to African...
Wow...
Humans have 90+ % of the same DNA as a Chimpanzee....So What.
Its been said for years....Australian Natives are NOT African Negroes.
Africans do Not have Neanderthal DNA traces.
Australians also have VERY European Features that Africans lack.
They DO NOT Have fuzzy Afro Hair, they have curly hair to straight hair.
They often HAVE lots of body hair...much like Europeans.
Their Children are often born with blonde and sandy brown hair, that goes black with age, just like European children. Yes Im talking about full
bloods. I Know, I have worked with them in Central Oz.
They did not use the Bow and Arrow, which means their culture was not exposed to that technology, BUT they developed very sophisticated spears for
different applications, and the brilliantly engineered Boomerang, not to mention the ingenious Womera, a special throwing attachment for a spear, that
effectively extended the leverage of the throwing arm, culminating in massive power.
With the current knowledge that Neanderthals had Red and probably fair hair, not to mention fair skin, I would think that the Australian Aboriginal
ARE the DIRECT descenants of the European Neanderthal/Cro Magnon/Sapien, mixture and are indeed the Ancestors of ALL Non African tribes of the
Earth.
Another thread on ATS, also talks of the "White European" Pre-Maori people of New Zealand......
Who is to say that the Australian Peoples were not lighter/fair skinned people when they migrated to Australia, during the cold ice age?, and
developed Dark skin as an environmental impact of the harsh Oz Sun. It is a Fact, that the Tasmanian natives, were of a light/fair skin tone, much
like a lightly tanned whitey. It is cold in Taz.
It is also a considered theory, that the current "Gracile" (skinny) Native, superceeded an earlier, possibly more primitive, "Robust" (heavier
build) earlier native to Australia.
The Polynesians were a mixture of indigenous Taiwanese people and probably Australian type peoples.
The Indigenous ancient tribes of Taiwan (who are not Han people), and the Ainu people of Japan (non Han), have very similar features to Aust. natives
too.
They Probably were the first real Human Explorers.
An excellent movie for people to watch is "Ten Canoes", it is set about 10,000 years ago (could be 40,000) in northern Australia.
An interesting insight into the culture and what it may have been like back then.......good viewing.
