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Oceanians (Aboriginal Australians and Papuans) are most differentiated from both East-Eurasians and West-Eurasians. Melanesians of some islands are one of the few non-European peoples, and the only dark-skinned group of people outside Australia, known to have blond hair.
Huxley (1870) described Australioids as dolichocephalic; their hair as usually silky, black and wavy or curly, with large, heavy jaws and prognathism, with skin the color of chocolate and irises which are dark brown or black. [8] The term "Proto-Australoid" was used by Roland Burrage Dixon in his Racial History of Man (1923).
The term "black" has been used to refer to Aboriginal Australians since European settlement. [24] While originally related to skin colour and often used pejoratively, [25] the term is used today to indicate Aboriginal heritage or culture in general and refers to any people of such heritage regardless of their level of skin pigmentation. [26]
The term Aboriginal Australians includes many distinct peoples who have developed across Australia for over 50,000 years. [ 11 ] [ 61 ] These peoples have a broadly shared, though complex, genetic history, [ 62 ] [ 40 ] but it is only in the last two hundred years that they have been defined and started to self-identify as a single group, socio ...
Papuan women with kinky hair. Kinky hair is a uniquely human characteristic, as most mammals have straight hair, including the earliest hominids. [11] Robbins (2012) suggests that kinky hair may have initially evolved because of an adaptive need amongst humans' early hominid ancestors for protection against the intense UV radiation of the sun in Africa.
One of the oldest living cultures, [4] dating back to the earliest human occupation of the continent around 50,000 years ago, [5] the Kuku Yalanji began to have their homeland occupied extensively by European colonisers in 1877, after the Australian government opened up this area to selection, [6] and as miners crowded into the area, where the Palmer River Gold Rush had been underway since ...
Douglas Nicholls (1906 - 1988) the first Aboriginal Australian to be knighted and hold a vice-regal office Charles Perkins (1936 - 2000) a pioneering Indigenous activist, sportsman and academic Hetty Perkins (c. 1895 - 1979) was an Eastern Arrernte elder who worked for The Bungalow ; she is the mother of Charles Perkins
Hairstring is an important textile traditionally made by Aboriginal Australians. People, particularly women, would cut their hair regularly using quartz or flint knives. This hair is never wasted. It can be spun into long threads of yarn on a spindle rolled on the thigh and then plaited to about the thickness of 8 ply wool.