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The first Australians came across the stepping stones from south-east Asia during an epoch when the level of the ocean was lower. The sea-straits were narrow but the voyages were courageous. The slow eastward movement of these peoples was one of the great events in the history of man.
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W. E. Harney, Taboo (Sydney, 1943), pp. 200–2.
Tasmanian raft-canoes: exhibit in Tasmanian Museum, Hobart. See also D. F. Thomson, ‘Notes on Some Primitive Watercraft in Northern Australia’, Man, 1952, vol. 52, pp. 1–5.
Polynesian voyages: G. M. Dening, ‘The Geographical Knowledge of the Polynesians’, Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol. 71, 1962, Supplement on ‘Polynesian Navigation’, esp. p. 131.
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Indonesia’s frequent volcanoes: G. A. Macdonald, ‘Volcano’, in E.B., 1962, vol. 23, p. 243.
Rhys Jones, editorial in Mankind, 1969, vol. 7, no. 2.
Seeds eaten on plains: R. Jones, ‘Emerging Picture of Pleistocene Australians’, Nature, 30 Nov. 1973, p. 281.
M. J. Meggitt, Desert People: a Study of the Walbiri Aborigines of Central Australia (Sydney, 1962), pp. 50–1.
Fluid tribal boundaries: E. C. Black, ‘Population and Tribal Distribution’, in B. C. Cotton ed., Aboriginal Man in South and Central Australia (Adelaide, 1966), p. 105.
Sydney languages: A Capell, ‘Aboriginal Languages in the South Central Coast, New South Wales: Fresh Discoveries.’ Oceania, 1971, vol. 41, pp. 22–4.
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Blainey, G. (1975). The Discoverers. In: Triumph of the Nomads. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02423-0_2
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