Posted on 03/08/2017 8:35:31 PM PST by JimSEA
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.
DNA in hair samples collected from Aboriginal people across Australia in the early to mid-1900s has revealed that populations have been continuously present in the same regions for up to 50,000 years -- soon after the peopling of Australia.
Published in the journal Nature, the findings reinforce Aboriginal communities' strong connection to country and represent the first detailed genetic map of Aboriginal Australia prior to the arrival of Europeans.
These are the first results from the Aboriginal Heritage Project, led by the University of Adelaide's Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) in partnership with the South Australian Museum.
Researchers analysed mitochondrial DNA from 111 hair samples that were collected during a series of remarkable anthropological expeditions across Australia from 1928 to the 1970s and are part of the South Australian Museum's unparalleled collection of hair samples.
Mitochondrial DNA allows tracing of maternal ancestry, and the results show that 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.
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I know this is a little out there but does anyone else see a ball sack in that map of AU with the red lines superimposed on it? It’s probably just me and I haven’t had any alcohol to drink in weeks.
Not knocking AU at all; just an observation of this particular pic...
It appears that you are “scrotally” correct, Boomer.
BkMrk Very interested in this...thanks
Hogwash. SunkinCiv revisited. Prove it.
Hogwash. SunkinCiv revisited. Prove it.
As a proud Australian, having read your comment, I definitely see it.
I can’t unsee it :)
Boomer: three things
You’re NUTS (or somebody’s).
Gen. McAuliffe - NUTS!
“Hot nuts, hot nuts, get them from the peanut man”. Song. Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts, Un. of Maryland group.
“The more you pay, the less we wear”.
Honest, they were a real party band.
I was too polite [or embarrassed] to mention it.
Luckily, not all FReepers have your restraint.
You’re so lady like!
I did not see a scrotum. I guess I’m ladylike too.
My wife will be surprised.
I see a tush; but did their boomerang come back?
Wait... I stood on my head and saw a bosom.
A big loving bosom as big as a continent!
Wait... I stood on my head and saw a bosom.
A big loving bosom as big as a continent!
Well, according to some people, the name of the national capital, Canberra means ‘Women’s Breasts’ in the local Aboriginal language. Unlike some such stories, this one is actually potentially credible.
This topic was posted , thanks JimSEA.
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