The Guardian | Indigenous Australians most ancient civilisation on Earth, DNA study confirms The Guardian A new population analysis of Indigenous Australians and Papuans shows they can trace their origins back to the very first arrivals on the continent about 50,000 years ago. Photograph: Matt Turner/Getty Images. Hannah Devlin Science correspondent. How early Aboriginal Australians journeyed from Africa Genomes confirm Aborigines as first Australians All non-Africans today can trace ancestry to ONE population emerging from Africa 72000 years ago |