Aboriginal Australian peoples
Aboriginal Australian peoples appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Australia (Oceania) from c. 3200 BCE to the present, a span of more than 5,225 years. Its people spoke Aboriginal Australian languages (Pama-Nyungan and other Australian families).
Aboriginal Australians have lived on the continent for at least 50,000 years in hundreds of language groups, shaping the land with fire and recording law and country in song, story and rock art. Colonisation from 1788 brought war, disease and dispossession.
See Aboriginal Australian peoples on the interactive timeline
Facts
- Dates
- c. 3200 BCE to the present
- Duration
- more than 5,225 years
- Type
- People or culture
- Region
- Australia, Oceania
- Language family
- Aboriginal Australian
Events in Oceania during its time
- Seafarers settle the Marianas
- Dingoes reach Australia
- Lapita voyagers settle Vanuatu and Fiji
- First settlers reach Tonga
- Polynesians settle East Polynesia
- Building of Nan Madol
- Polynesians reach New Zealand
- Duyfken lands in Australia
Neighbours in Oceania
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Tu'i Tonga Empire
- Saudeleur dynasty
- New Zealand
- Colony of New South Wales
- Kingdom of Hawaii
- Colony of New Zealand
- Papua New Guinea
- German New Guinea
- Spanish Marianas
Elsewhere in the world at the same time
- Minoan civilization
- Republic of Venice
- Byzantine Empire
- Byzantine Empire
- Swahili city-states
- Ghana Empire (Wagadu)
- Holy Roman Empire
- Kingdom of Aksum
- Srivijaya
- Ethiopian Empire (Solomonic dynasty)
Questions
When did Aboriginal Australian peoples exist?
c. 3200 BCE to the present, about more than 5,225 years. These dates are approximate, because the evidence for its beginning or end is uncertain.
Where was Aboriginal Australian peoples?
Australia, in Oceania.
What language did Aboriginal Australian peoples speak?
Aboriginal Australian. This family includes Pama-Nyungan and other Australian families.