Explainer: Who were the first Australians?
Explainer: Who were the first Australians?
702 ABC Sydney By John Donegan
Posted 28 Jun 2015, 7:38pm
The Bradshaw, or Gwion Gwion, rock paintings.
The Bradshaw rock paintings, or the Gwion Gwion figures, found in the north-west Kimberly region of West Australia have in the past been used to argue that Indigenous Australians were not the first Australians.
Archaeologists claimed these paintings were produced by a different race.
About 20,000 years old, the Gwion Gwion figures are more recent than other paintings in the area, which have been dated as being up to 40,000 years old.
But Dr Michael Westaway, biological anthropologist from Griffith University, said genome sequencing dispels the myth that Indigenous Australians were not the first Australians.
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