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Large size of the Australian Indigenous population prior to its massive decline following European invasion

2024-10-22

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Estimating the size of Indigenous populations in Australia prior to European colonial invasion is essential to truth-telling and reconciliation. Robust estimates of the population dynamics of pre-colonial Indigenous Australians are poor due to lethal diseases, frontier violence, and no systematic censuses. We review ethnographic observations, archaeological and genetic reconstructions,...

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Literature Corpus work: 7243bf5c-10fe-55a0-9eda-e57a1875c80d
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5127915/v1

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