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Aboriginal people are believed to be from the original humans that left Africa then migrated to Asia over seventy thousand years ago. They eventually arrived in Australia around fifty thousand years ago.

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The oldest dated item found in Australia dates back to 47,000 B.C. and scientists estimate that humans could have been on the continent as far back as 175,000 B.C. (Dortch 1994 - Journal of Royal Society of Western Australia 77:23-32)

Scientists, can't exactly tell, but most trustworthy sites say 30,000-50,000 years ago.

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