Re:Tamil Bell
by linuxkerneldev on Friday March 24, 2017 @09:41AM
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> From their perspective it probably would have felt like sinking into savagery.
This sentence is incongruous with the rest of your post. Why would you think such a thing?
The sentiment is lifted directly from the linked post.
It's hard to argue with given the subcontinent had agricultural, seafaring populations while Australian populations never made it past Paleolithic hunter-gathering.
Basically there's genetic (Y chromosome) and linguistic evidence suggesting an infusion of Indian immigration (~5000 years ago so maybe a distinct event from this). One plausible explanation is that some Dravidian seafarers crash-landed in Australia and got absorbed by the local population. From their perspective it probably would have felt like sinking into savagery.