The Australian Aborigines
Population
Australian Aborigines migrated from somewhere in Asia at least 30,000 years ago. Aborigines are Australia's indigenous people. Recent government statistics counted approximately 400,000 aboriginal people, or about 2% of Australia's total population. Language
The Australian Aboriginal languages comprise up to twenty-seven language families. There used to be 250 Aboriginal languages spoken in Australia. Every single language in that the Australian Aborigines spoke is now endangered. It only has a few surviving speakers.
Subsistence
The Food and Subsistence of Aboriginal Australians enabled them to adapt completely to their environment. Aboriginal people generally enjoyed a mixed and abundant diet of plant and animal foods that varied according to time of year and local environmental conditions. Their intimate understanding of regional ecology and natural resources enabled some of them to survive in environments that European settlers of Australia still find extremely harsh and uninhabitable. Because they lived on the coast fish was the biggest part of their diet.
-Ryan Hulmes
