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Australia's story began with the arrival of humans origin of names to the Australian continent from the north over 42,000 and even 68,000 years ago, according to some studies. Despite having been seen since the sixteenth century by Portuguese and Spanish sailors, who for strategic origin of names reasons had kept secret his discovery, the written history only began with the Dutch explorers who sighted in the seventeenth century. They, however, hinted that the southern land was uninhabitable origin of names and unfit for settlement, leaving the way open for subsequent origin of names British expeditions way. The interpretation of Australian history is still an issue today, particularly in regard to the treatment of Australian Aborigines by European settlers ...
In relation to Australia, the term prehistoric origin of names period extending from immigration from its earliest inhabitants to the first European sighting confirmed in 1606, which can be included as part of its early history. It is considered that Australian prehistory is a few thousand years more extensive than in other parts of the world because there are no written human events in the continent prior to European contact. Recent studies have concluded that the first European who sighted the island when the Spaniards were sailing the Pacific. In Australia found helmets belonging to the sixteenth century Spanish soldiers.
The exact date of the first human settlements in Australia is still a matter of debate. However, origin of names it is believed that the southern land has been inhabited by humans since 42,000 years ago, although some researchers say it was 48,000 years ago, at that time there was a period of massive environmental change believed was the result of human actions. The first Australians were the ancestors of Aboriginal Australians today who arrived via land bridges and narrow from the Southeast Asian maritime steps. Note that for most of the prehistory origin of names of Australia, this was linked to New Guinea so for tens of thousands of years both populations origin of names evolved together. You only between 14,000 and 7000 years with sea level rise both land masses were separated. Most of these people were hunter-gatherers, with a complex oral tradition and spiritual values based on the worship of the land and a belief in the Dreamtime. origin of names The Torres Strait Islanders, ethnically Melanesian, inhabited since that time the Torres Strait Islands and parts of far north Queensland, have different from other Australians Aboriginal groups cultural practices. We also know that the dingo, the only available in Australia domesticated mammal, was taken there from Southeast origin of names Asia and is relatively new to the island, is found only from 1500. C. Since at least the last century, Makassar, indonesia city on the island of Sulawesi today, had been trading with the natives of the north coast, particularly the Yolngu of Arnhem Land. In 1603 Father origin of names Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit origin of names who spent a long time in China, made a map of the known world of the time. In the space where he would place Australia noted: No one has been on this earth south, so we know nothing about it. He also wrote in Chinese characters and Tierra del Fuego Land of Parrots, which suggested that the Chinese knew of or even perhaps had visited Australia.
The first written about the discovery of Australia (brand new world), origin of names by European explorers dating from the early seventeenth century. However it seems very likely that there was contact with Australia origin of names and in the sixteenth century, because they appear representations of the northern coast in the Spanish and Portuguese cartography of the time, plus some blanks in French. Ya sure, in 1601 the Portuguese Godinho de Heredia played out in the current Van Diemen. Luis Vaez de Torres, ocean Portuguese in the service origin of names of the Spanish crown, sailed through the strait that now bears his name, between New Guinea and Cape York Peninsula, between 1 and 9 October 1606, in all likelihood he sighted the northern Australian coast. Some writers have argued that the brand new world might have been discovered by Portuguese sailors in the sixteenth century, origin of names recently wrote journalist Peter Trickett