Oceania

====Australia====
{{Main|Prehistory of Australia|History of Indigenous Australians}}
[[File:Native Encampment by Skinner Prout, from Australia (1876, vol II).jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|A 19th-century engraving of an Aboriginal Australian encampment]]
[[Indigenous Australians]] are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands who migrated from [[Africa]] to [[Asia]] {{circa}} 70,000 years ago<ref name="scimag" /> and arrived in Australia {{circa}} 50,000 years ago.<ref name="illumina.com" /> They are believed to be among the [[Recent African origin of modern humans|earliest human migrations out of Africa]].<ref name="BBSRC" /> Although they likely migrated to Australia through Southeast Asia they are not demonstrably related to any known Asian or Polynesian population.<ref name="ourcount" /> There is evidence of genetic and linguistic interchange between Australians in the far north and the Austronesian peoples of modern-day [[New Guinea]] and the islands, but this may be the result of recent trade and [[Interracial marriage|intermarriage]].<ref name="germs314" />

They reached [[Tasmania]] {{circa}} 40,000 years ago by migrating across a [[land bridge]] from the mainland that existed during the last [[ice age]].<ref name="prehis" /> It is believed that the first [[early human migration]] to Australia was achieved when this landmass formed part of the [[Sahul continent]], connected to the island of New Guinea via a land bridge.<ref name="perspe81" /> The [[Torres Strait Islanders]] are indigenous to the [[Torres Strait]] Islands, which are at the northernmost tip of [[Queensland]] near [[Papua New Guinea]].<ref name="uow2004" /> The earliest definite human remains found in Australia are that of [[Mungo Man]], which have been dated at {{circa}} 40,000 years old.<ref name="pmid4570638" />