[indcons]

Australia was probably populated by people crossing over from SE Asia through a land brisge during low-tide. After all, we know sea levels keep fluctuating pver time.

Again, if the Australian Aborgines used boats, why/how did they lose such a powerful technology? After all, these people were still living in the stone age when Jayavarma was building the architectural masterpieces in Cambodia and Indonesia, which were only a few miles away by boat.

[U S Army EOD]

Depends on which theory you read. I have read ones that claim the Aborigines are a race all on their own and evolved there. The strange animal population in Aussie land was also nothing like anywhere else on Earth.

[muawiyah]

Nope ~ no landbridge for the last 70 miles or so. It's deep water even in the worst iceage ever.

Current theory is that humanity developed boats at the same time it got smarter, and this happened in and around Australia and associated islands.

The aborigines continued to have boats.

[lepton]

Australia was probably populated by people crossing over from SE Asia through a land brisge during low-tide. After all, we know sea levels keep fluctuating pver time.

They'd have to have boats. while you could get a lot farther with low sea levels, there is a chasm in the ocean floor that runs between some of the islands.