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I am a botanist  in Oz 


https://australianmuseum.net.au/blogpost/science/boat-people-from-sri-lanka-to-australia


Gondwana and before the last ice age there was a merging and alot of movement through the elevated land mass and or reduction of sea water level.across Australasia. he same India was joined to Australia and they have linked the vedda people with the same dna 


. Recent research on the genetic material at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, suggests that direct contact between the people of the Indian subcontinent and Australian indigenous people occurred over 4,000 years ago. Researchers detected a good imprint of Indian influence in Aboriginal genes.


We don’t know how this has happened, but it is instructive to speculate. In the second millennium BCE, various domesticated food-plants and animals (and some wild species) were moved across the Indian Ocean in both directions. For example it is possible that the banana – native to Southeast Asia and Papua - was introduced to Africa about 4000 years ago. The outrigger canoe, present in east Africa and Madagascar, South India and Sri Lanka has also Southeast Asian origins. Equally malaria of African origin surfaced in Southeast Asia and Asian Elephantiasis in Africa.


Researchers hypothesise that this early translocation of plants, animals and exchange of cultural ideas was carried out by entrepreneurial traders, who in small boats travelled west and east. They speculated that the adoption of plants from Austronesia on the Indian subcontinent would most likely occur via Orissa and Sri Lanka - regions most ecologically compatible with the wet tropics of Southeast Asia. We don’t understand yet the social and economic reasons driving these travellers ‘with little more than basic seafaring technology to take on voyages that even in today’s world appear to be exceptionally dangerous and even foolhardy’ (Fuller at al 2011).


If native people of the Indian subcontinent reached our shores, they could have introduced a domestic dog – the dingo – to Australia about 4000 years ago. It is likely that the dingo caused the extinction of the Thylacine - Tasmanian Tiger - on the mainland. Archaeologists observe numerous changes in technology and material culture at that time. Tasmania, isolated from the mainland, preserved not only the Thylacine until colonial times, but also the physical appearance of Tasmanian Aborigines – different from their mainland brothers.


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