Who were the early inhabitants of australia?

The earliest human inhabitants of Australia, called aborigines or indigenous Australians, are thought to have been a group of Africans who migrated to Asia probably about 64.000 to 75,000 years ago,. Most scientists believe that the indigenous Australians arrived about 40.000 to 50,000 years ago, though some think it was as much as 125,000 years ago. The earliest human remains found in Australia are about 42,000 years old. The arrival in Australia may have been in a single large group or as many as three waves.

The long ocean voyages would have been made by many small ships, hopping from island to island, perhaps staying a while and interbreeding, then moving on.

Genetically, aborigines are most likely to resemble southern and central Asians, with some influence from Pacific Islanders such as Melanesians.

Most indigenous Australians lived as nomadic hunter-gatherers.