I got my Elective Geography results back and I wasn't satisfied.I could have gotten higher but due to a careless mistake of mine,I loss 4 marks (I was supposed to contrast and compare A and B one after another but I seperated A and B into seperate paragraphs).
I promised myself I won't ever make that kind of mistake again.The last lesson was spent on going through answers for the test paper. However,Mr Quek wanted us to post about Autralian Aborigines so I shall do some basic research about it.
Australian Aborigines are those people regarded as indigenous to the Australian continent
Most scholars date the arrival of humans in Australia at 40,000 to 50,000 years ago, with a possible range of up to 125,000 years ago.[2] The earliest human remains found to date are that of Mungo Man which have been dated at about 40,000 years old. It is generally believed that Aboriginal people are the descendants of a single migration into the continent, although a minority propose that there were three waves of migration.[17] Aboriginal people seem to have lived a long time in the same environment as the now extinct Australian megafauna.[18]
Aboriginal people mainly lived as hunter-gatherers. They hunted and foraged for food from the land. Aboriginal society was relatively mobile, or semi-nomadic, moving due to the changing food availability found across different areas as seasons changed. The mode of life and material cultures varied greatly from region to region. The greatest population density was to be found in the southern and eastern regions of the continent, the River Murray valley in particular.
It has been estimated that at the time of first European contact, the absolute minimum pre-1788 population was 315,000, while recent archaeological finds suggest that a population of 750,000 could have been sustained.[6] The population was split into 250 individual nations, many of which were in alliance with one another, and within each nation there existed several clans, from as little as 5 or 6 to as many as 30 or 40. Each nation had its own language and a few had several. Thus over 250 languages existed, around 200 of which are now extinct or on the verge of extinction.
Indigenous groups in Australia are increasingly well organized and successful. They have in recent years made some impressive gains in land claims, but the process of claiming land rights and the legal framework in which it operates still strongly favors the state and creates unnecessary hurdles for Indigenous Peoples. Most original Indigenous land has not been restored yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australians
