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Settlement of Australia
Aboriginal people have lived in Australia for tens of thousands of years. Humans arrived in Australia 40,000 to 50,000 years ago. For most of this time, the Indigenous Australians lived as nomads and as hunter-gatherers with a strong dependence on the land and their agriculture for survival. Indigenous people were displaced from their ways of life, were forced to submit to European rule, and were later encouraged to assimilate into Western culture. There is no clear or accepted origin of the indigenous people of Australia. Aboriginal people of Australia were not "people of an unchanging stone age" as they have been so often portrayed by European colonists, but inventive and creative individuals living within cultures that over the millennia had become finely attuned to the rhythms and changes of the droughts and flooding rains that characterize the Australian environment. Aborigines were limited to the range of foods occurring naturally in their area, but they knew exactly when, where and how to find everything edible.

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