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Last Updated: Apr 9, 2024 • Article History

Aboriginal people of Galiwnku Island in Australia

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Key People:: A.R. Radcliffe-Brown; Géza Róheim; Sir Baldwin Spencer; W.E.H. Stanner; Francis James Gillen

Related Topics:: Tasmanian Aboriginal people; Kulin; Bundjalung; Ngunnawal; Noongar

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Australian Aboriginal peoples, one of the two distinct groups of Indigenous peoples of Australia, the other being the Torres Strait Islander peoples. It has long been conventionally held that Australia is the only continent where the entire Indigenous population maintained a single kind of adaptation—hunting and gathering—into modern times. Some scholars now argue, however, that there is evidence of the early practice of both agriculture and aquaculture by Aboriginal peoples. This finding raises questions regarding the traditional viewpoint that presents Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples as perhaps unique in the degree of contrast between the complexity of their ...(100 of 7638 words)

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