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Note, however, that the Australian aboriginals' oral histories (songlines) lack any reference to coming from elsewhere, although DNA clearly demonstrates other
by DrScump 9y ago
Note, however, that the Australian aboriginals' oral histories
(songlines) lack any reference to coming from elsewhere, although DNA clearly demonstrates otherwise.
In such cases, if any given generation omits an element from its oral history (by choice or mistake), it is lost forever.
- flukus 9y agoThere are two orders of magnitude difference in time though. Australian Aboriginals have been on the continent for 40-60 thousand years, Polynesians made it to Hawaii 800-2000 years ago.