synneaborigineshistory

 ** Where did they live? ** Most Aborigines lived in the outskirts of the cities and on the countrysides of Australia. The reason for this may be that the "white people" didn’t want Aborigines in their area, but as far away as possible. It is also possible that they felt more at home in the nature, and felt not at home in the big cities,   where the “white people” lived  ** The beginning of the Aborigines time in Australia ** 60 000 years ago there was ice age on earth, the continents did not look like we know them today. The sea-surface was lower, and the climate was colder. Australia was not where it is today, but was connected to the island of New Guinea and therefore it wasn’t a long way to the Indonesian islands, where the first Australians most likely came from. Most likely they came in canoe "boats". No one knows why they came, but it must have been planned, because they brought the women. Another possibility is that Australia was stuck together with South America, but because of the lithosphere   which is constantly in motion, the continents slid apart. This is known as the continental drift. Aborigines, however, believe that they aren’t immigrants from Asia or South America, but have been there as long as Australia has existed. They like to travel around, but not to new countries, they remained in their own country. Aborigines themselves believe that they were Australia's first people, and therefore think that the land is theirs.  BACK 1574, AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINE (H. King)