The Proto-Australoids were a hypothetical ancient hunter-gatherer people descended from the first major wave of modern humans to leave Africa 100,000 years ago. A hunter-gatherer society is one whose primary subsistence method involves the direct procurement of edible plants and animals from the wild Foraging and Hunting Characterised by gracile body types, they are thought to have had dark skin colour approaching black and wavy or curly black hair. They had long heads and broad, flat noses. ^[1]

Migration

The proto-Australoids are thought to have begun their exodus out of Africa roughly 100,000 years ago. They are thought to have used a simple form of watercraft to cross the narrow span of water between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The Red Sea is a Salt water Inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. The Gulf of Aden (خليج عدن transliterated: Khalyj 'Adan Somali: Khaleejka Cadan) is located in the Arabian Sea between From there it is hypothesized that they followed a coastal route through south asia into Southeast Asia. While some individuals made a short oceanic voyage into Australia (50-60 KYA), giving rise to the Australian Aborigines, others continued their coastal migration north into East Asia. This is an article about a class of people as identified and defined within Australian law

Although strongly debated, it is believed that some proto-Australoid tribes may have continued their coastal migration north into East Asia, from where they pushed on into Siberia and eventually crossed the Bering Land Bridge (or followed a coastal route) into the Americas, contributing to a hypothetical population of Pre-Siberian American Aborigines. The Bering land bridge was a Land bridge roughly 1000 miles (1600 km north to south at its greatest extent which joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia The name American Aborigines has been proposed by some archaeologists and anthropologists for hypothetical peoples who lived in The Americas prior to the arrival of

Proponents of a proto-Australoid population wave theorize that remnants of this early founding population may be found today in Southern portion of the subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Oceania. Some have proposed connections to the Ainu of Japan. Genetically, they have been tentatively associated by some authors with mtDNA haplogroup M and Y-chromosome Haplogroup C^[2], the earliest Homo Sapiens lineages thought to have migrated outside of Africa. In Human genetics, Haplogroup M is a Human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA haplogroup. In Human genetics, Haplogroup C (RPS4Y=M130 M216 is a Y-chromosome Haplogroup. Human beings, humans or man (Origin 1590–1600 L homō man OL hemō the earthly one (see Humus ^[3]

See also

• Australoid

Notes

The Australoid race is a broad racial classification. The concept's existence is based on the typological method of racial classification.

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