Evidence that the aboriginals discovered Australia?

Question

Evidence that the aboriginals discovered Australia?

Answer 1

Stewartr is not quite right the Aboriginal people have only been in Australia for about 40000-50000 years. And as they came to be here before the European settlers then i guess you could say they discovered it first. The Aboriginal people however believe they were born from the earth and that would suggest they didn't discover Australia but you would have to dig a lot deeper into their culture to find out more than i know which i admit barely scratches the surface.

Answer 2

There isn't really evidence to say that they were first, but in my opinion Aboriginals will always belong to Australia and the native outback, wildlife and bush in general.

When Captain Cook arrived he reported that "black" people were around, so this also gives us some knowledge that aboriginals were there. Though when we look at the word "Discover" this isn't really what the aboriginals did, as they didn't navigate the land or anything, they just found what ever came there way whether this was waterholes, animals or large bushy areas of the land.

Answer 3

Once upon a time the word 'discover' was usually followed by 'to'.  So Cook discovered the east coast to other Europeans.  It has pretty much the same idea behind it as 'uncovered' or 'removed from hiding'.

So in that sense the aboriginal people did not discover Australia because they told nobody else about it.  

If you mean "Were they the first to find it?" Well that can't be answered since there is no record of events 40,000 or more years ago.  But it's pretty likely.

Answer 4

The answer to your question isn't quite as straightforward as it might seem since it depends exactly what you mean by "discovered Australia". Do you mean 'Europeans who knew that a large land mass was in that region?" or might you mean "sailors who had charted part of the coastline?" or maybe "which person claimed Australia for his own country?"

But no, aboriginals didn't discover Australia.

See European discovery and the colonisation of Australia for the correct info or the right direction for your question.

http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/a...

An abundance of info there

Answer 5

they didn't discover australia, they are native to that country, that's what aboriginal means. there is lots of evidence of there existence over millions of years. like paintings on walls of caves, deposits of empty shellfish shells it piles in the earth, fossilised weapons, just to name a few

Answer 6

Ummmm.  Presence?

Answer 7

what a stupid stupid question. are you american? aboriginals are native australians.

Answer 8

you might have to explain your question a bit better.