Re:Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry
by runsWphotons on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @07:09PM
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it seems the theory is more disputed than i remember, so lets say around 5000 years ago there was perhaps significant indian introgression into aborginal genetics (as per article above), the introduction of new tools, the arrival of the dingo (speculated by some to be introduced by these indian peoples) and the spread of this language family from a small progenitor language to the dominant language on the continent. So something significant was happening at that time. There are other hints there couldve been previous waves of new peoples from art and so on (these are disputed, from memory). The story of the aboriginals will wind up being more complex and interesting than "showed up 60,000 years ago and were unchanged until the first fleet".
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Re:Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry
by girvo on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:10PM
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> and the spread of this language family from a small progenitor language to the dominant language on the continent
I was with you up until this point. Do you have a source for this?
Re:Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry
by runsWphotons on Thursday March 02, 2023 @03:43AM
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Well it is dominant in that >300/~400 languages are bow in this family. This paper argues for a mid-holocene origin from a proto language around the time we are discussing, and also mentions some other theories w sources (https://langev.com/pdf/442ac40068c1d8a67a561d0d7f0fcd95c429c...)