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This clip explores Dr Alan Thorne’s controversial viewpoint that modern Aboriginal peoples are the descendents of two groups of peoples from Indonesia and eastern Asia, principally China.
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This clip explores Dr Alan Thorne’s controversial viewpoint that modern Aboriginal peoples are the descendents of two groups of peoples from Indonesia and eastern Asia, principally China.
This clip from 1984 shows Dr Alan Thorne holding two skulls as he explains his controversial theory, based on bones found at Australian archaeological sites, that there were two peoples in what is termed prehistoric Australia. He says that the remains found in Kow Swamp, Victoria, belong to large and robust people who ‘show clear links with much earlier people in Indonesia’. He says that the remains found at Lake Mungo, New South Wales, are those of physically finer people who ‘show clear links with people in eastern Asia, particularly in China’. He further theorises that ‘these two sorts of people fused together’ to produce modern Aboriginal people.
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