Did Australian Aborigines reach America first?

[Atlas]

Cranial features distinctive to Australian Aborigines are present in hundreds of skulls that have been uncovered in Central and South America, some dating back to over 11,000 years ago.

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/sinapse/images/sps05_16.jpg

Walter Neves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Neves) of the University of São Paulo, whose findings are reported in a cover story in the October/November issue of Cosmos magazine, has examined these skeletons and recovered others, and argues that there is now a mass of evidence indicating that at least two different populations colonised the Americas.

He and colleagues in the United States, Germany and Chile argue that first population was closely related to the Australian Aborigines and arrived more than 11,000 years ago.

In total, there are now hundreds of skeletons with the cranial morphology similar to Australian Aborigines, found in seven sites – as far north as Florida in the United States to Palli Aike in southern Chile.

http://cdn0.cosmosmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/C35_Cover_LR-394x472.jpg

In 2005, Neves published a paper in the U.S journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, analysing the characteristics of a further 81 skeletons he recovered from one of four sites, in which he said strengthened his argument that there were migrations to the Americas from at least two major populations.

http://archive.cosmosmagazine.com/news/did-australian-aborigines-reach-america-first/

[Atlas]

Wurdi Youang rocks could prove Aborigines were first astronomers...

IS this just a pile of rocks placed in a semicircle, or proof that Aborigines were the world's first astronomers?

After years of meticulous examination, a group of Australia's most distinguished astro-physicists is starting to believe it's the latter - a discovery that could turn history upside down and render England's famous Stonehenge an also-ran.

http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2013/02/21/1226000/454329-mt-rothwell.jpg

Dubbed Wurdi Youang, the strange stone arrangement was found on property near Mt Rothwell, 80km west of Melbourne - its two points set in perfect alignment with the setting sun on a midsummer's day.

CSIRO experts believe the ancient Aboriginal sundial could be upwards of 10,000 years old, an estimate that would have it pre-date the famous neolithic Stonehenge and the only remaining ancient wonder of the world, the Egyptian Pyramids.

http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2011/02/04/1226000/454324-mt-rothwell.jpg

Its location is a closely guarded secret.

CSIRO astro-physicist Professor Ray Norris said the precise alignment of the stones proved it was constructed to map the sun.

"This can't be done by guesswork, it required very careful measurements. If it goes back, let's say, 10,000 years, that predates the Egyptians, the Pyramids, Stonehenge, all that stuff," Professor Norris said.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/ancient-aboriginal-eyes-were-on-the-skies/story-e6freuzr-1226000454584
Source: Proof that Aborigines were the World's First Astronomers? (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?13336-Proof-that-Aborigines-were-the-World-s-First-Astronomers&p=122851&viewfull=1#post122851)

[Patrikas]

Heres a little more along the lines of the op,s post

http://wakeup-world.com/2013/09/30/australias-stonehenge-indigenous-elders-share-the-truth-about-ancient-site/

http://wakeup-world.com/2013/09/16/australias-stonehenge/

[Ellisa]

I remember seeing the low 'walls' of stones in the You Yangs area years ago. We were told that the stone barriers were the remains of old sheep corrals from the 19th C. The latest research is very interesting, and, I think cannot be dismissed. Similarly, the remains of fish traps and stone huts in the Warrnambool/Portland area of SW Victoria were said to be the work of 'stranded Chinese sailors'! It wasn't until someone researching the area thought to ask what the indigeneous people thought they were and the people themselves were able to explain that they had been constructed by the Aboriginal population in the area and maintained until the arrival of Europeans. I think that more attention is now being paid to the beliefs of the original inhabitants, though action will possibly depend on whether that will clash with the interests of developers looking for oil and gas etc.

[Star Tsar]

If this hypothesis is indeed the case then its about time we dropped the Ab No?

[Old Wolf]

Just a couple of days ago I was thinking of the parallels between the original Australian firestick farming and the first nations burning of the plains. The Australians would alternately burn sections of grassland to encourage the growth of grass and attract the kangaroos for hunting and some of the first nations people would burn the plains to encourage the re-growth of grass which sustained the migratory buffalo herds. Perhaps there's more to it than simple coincidence.