Aboriginal Tasmanians
Aboriginal Tasmanians or Tasmanian aborigines are indigenous people of Tasmania whom were cut off the rest of Australia and the natives about 9 thousand years ago due to rising sea levels.
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A picture of the last four Tasmanian Aboriginal people of solely Aboriginal descent c. 1860s. Truganini, the last to survive, is seated at far right.
The shoreline of Tasmania and Victoria about 14,000 years ago as sea levels were rising showing some of the human archaeological sites – see Prehistory of Australia.For a more detailed map of the land bridge, see Hamacher et-al (2023).
Benjamin Duterrau, Mr Robinson's first interview with Timmy, 1840
1846 painting of the Wybalenna Aboriginal Establishment
1903 recording of a Tasmanian language
Horace Watson recording the songs of Fanny Cochrane Smith, considered to be the last fluent speaker of a Tasmanian language, 1903. Singer Bruce Watson, descendant of Watson, composed a song about this picture and later performed it with singer Ronnie Summers, a descendant of Smith.
Map of Tasmanian Tribes at the time of first European contact.*Based on data from Lyndall Ryan, The Aboriginal Tasmanians, Allen & Unwin, 1996, ISBN 1863739653 and overlaid on a photograph from NASA [1].
