The form of the government of Tasmania is prescribed in its constitution, which dates from 1856, although it has been amended many times since then. Since 1901, Tasmania has been a state of the Common ...
The state is named after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who made the first reported European sighting of the island on 24 November 1642. Tasman named the island "Anthony van Diemen's Land" after his spon ...
Netherlands New Guinea and the Australian territories were invaded in 1942 by the Japanese. The Australian territories were put under military administration and were known simply as New Guinea. The h ...
The first inhabitants of New Guinea arrived at least around 40,000 years ago, having travelled through the south-east Asian peninsula. These first inhabitants, from whom the Papuan people are probably ...
The current population of the island of New Guinea is about eleven million. Many believe human habitation on the island dates to as early as 40,000 B.C., and first settlement possibly dated back to 60 ...
New Guinea is an island in the north of the continent of Sahul, also known as Greater Australia. It is isolated by the Arafura Sea to the west and the Torres Strait and Coral Sea to the east. Sometime ...
The image of the caveman is commonly associated with the Stone Age. For example, the 2003 documentary series showing the evolution of humans through the Stone Age was called Walking with Cavemen, alth ...
This period is not to be identified with "Old Stone Age", a translation of Paleolithic, or with Paleolithic, or with the "Earlier Stone Age" that originally meant what became the Paleolithic and Mesol ...
The end of Oldowan in Africa was brought on by the appearance of Acheulean, or Mode 2, stone tools. The earliest known instances are in the 1.7–1.6 mya layer at Kokiselei, West Turkana, Kenya. At Ste ...
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (from Greek: παλαι??, palaios, "old"; and λ?θο?, lithos, "stone" lit. "old stone," coined by archaeologist John Lubbock and published in 1865) is the earlie ...
The Stone Age is contemporaneous with the evolution of the genus Homo, the only exception possibly being at the very beginning, when species prior to Homo may have manufactured tools. According to the ...
The world was created during the Dreamtime. A Dreaming is a story owned by different tribes and their members that explains the creation of life, people and animals. A Dreaming story is passed on prot ...
Hunter-gatherer societies manifest significant variability, depending on climate zone/life zone, available technology and societal structure.One way to divide hunter-gatherer groups is by their return ...
In the 1950s, Louis Binford suggested that early humans were obtaining meat via scavenging, not hunting. Early humans in the Lower Paleolithic lived in forests and woodlands, which allowed them to col ...
Western Australian Aboriginal history See Timeline of Aboriginal history of Western Australia for specific detailsAboriginal people of Western Australia practiced an oral tradition with no written lan ...
