Are Indigenous Australians the first out of Africa?

Question

Since they are the farthest from it?

Answer 1

No, humans out of Africa migrated for thousands of years into Asia, they settled in other places first before making it to Australia only 45,000 years ago.

besides, even farther than Australia is the new world, men only arrived there around 18,000 years ago or so.

The first men out of Africa around 120,000 years ago settled in the middle east

europe was inhabited around 60,000 years ago, with the last places (around Portugal) being inhabited around 14,000 years ago

Answer 2

No, the first "Out of Africa" would strictly speaking probably be those that settled in what is now the Arabian penninsula or Mesopotamia.

I would think since in Mesopotamia has cities with continuous 9-10 thousand years of occupation, they could be some of the oldest peoples on the planet outside of Africans who are much older - by hundreds of thousands of years.

As far as aboriginals being "first", They are certainly the farthest flung - in the Eurasian/Australian group.

But possibly, but there is tantalizing evidence to suggest that there were aboriginal tribes in the Patagonia region of the Americas.  The evidence I'm aware of was not particularly well substantiated and was still somewhat preliminary, but since "Africa direct" beach-combing aboriginals were thought to have settled the a land-bridge connected Australia by neary 50,000 years ago, that would make similar such American aboriginals early arrivals to the Americas by almost 20,000 years.

The more conventional history is as you can see in this web-page.

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journe...

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-b...

Answer 3

No, modern Homo sapien evolved 100,000 years ago in Africa and then migrated into Asia and then Europe and then Australia and then finally to the Americas.  The order is pretty concrete at this point, but the timing seems to be continuously in flux with every new archaeological finding pushing the dates around a few thousand years each time.  Especially the migration to the Americas, at one time it was felt that that migration took place around 12,000 years ago, but more recently sites have been found in S. America that date back to 18,000 ears ago which means that man must have passed through N. America sooner then that or else that that early migration may have come from the South Pacific to be later replaced (or bred into) by the larger migration of 12,000 years ago.  Dates on the Australian migration, however, remain relatively static in comparrison and, in my opinion, is not as interesting to study because their is less conjecture and hypothesis.

Answer 4

Indigenous Australians are thought to have come from Indonesian and walked to Australia when the was a land bridge connecting the countries.

Ozzie - yes Australia is part of the new world but people have populated Australia for more than 18,000 years.  Conservative estimates guess between 40,000 - 60,000 years whereas some estimates go as far as 100,000 years.  There is archaeological evidence to support this.