Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands. Humans first migrated to …

Australian Aboriginal peoples, one of the two distinct groups of Indigenous peoples of Australia, the other being the Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Jan 18, 2025 · From the times of the last Ice Age, when sea levels rose and virtually plunged Aboriginal peoples into a state of complete isolation, to the great upheaval caused by colonialism, Aboriginal …

Jul 14, 2025 · Aboriginal Australians are all related to a common group of ancestors who emerged on the mainland more than 50,000 years ago. Centuries after British colonization ravaged their …

May 17, 2018 · Australian Aborigines, the original inhabitants of the continent of Australia, took up residence there at least 40,000 years before Europeans landed at Botany Bay in 1788. In 1788, the …

AIATSIS acknowledges all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traditional Custodians of Country and recognises their continuing connection to land, sea, culture and community. We pay our respects to …

Aboriginal people believed in the continuing existence of spirit-being ancestors who lived on earth during “the Dreaming” and created the natural world before the arrival of humans. They took various forms …

Indigenous Australians are descendants of the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. The term includes both the Torres Strait Islanders and the Aboriginal People, who …

An engraving from the late 19th century depicting Gweagal men confronting a British landing party in 1770 The history of Indigenous Australians began 50,000 to 65,000 years ago when humans first …

Seagoing Makassarese traders from the Indonesian archipelago began making regular visits to Arnhem Land sometime before the 1700s to harvest bêche-de-mer (sea cucumber, or trepang) for export to …