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One question was persistently asked by inquisitive Europeans who made early visits to Australia, Where, they asked, did the dark Tasmanians come from? The question, perplexing today, was even more perplexing then. The Tasmanians seemed so different in appearance from the aboriginals on the Australian mainland that different sources had to be supposed for the two peoples.
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French visit: L. A. Triebel, ‘Marion du Fresne: Pioneer Explorer’, Papers of Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1972, vol. 19, pp. 126–8.
Hair of Tasmanians and mainlanders: Plomley, pp. 15, 19–20; R. M. and Catherine H. Berndt, The First Australians, (Sydney, 1967 edn.), p. 31.
Shaler’s ice sheets: P. K. Weyl, Oceanography: an Introduction to the Marine Environment (New York, 1970), p. 453.
Belief that primitive peoples were static: D. J. Mulvaney, ‘Discovering Man’s Place in Nature’, in The Australian Academy of Humanities, Proceedings 1971 (Sydney, 1971), pp. 50–1.
William Bligh, A Voyage to the South Sea (London, 1792), p. 51.
Dravidian theory: A. W. Howitt, ‘On the Origins of the Aborigines of Tasmania and Australia’, in A.A.A.S. (Sydney, 1898), pp. 747–9.
J. B. Birdsell, ‘Preliminary Data on the Trihybrid Origin of the Australian Aborigines’, A. & P.A., vol. 2, 1967, pp. 100–55.
Tasmanians possibly modified by isolation: S. L. Larnach and N. W. G. Macintosh, ‘The Keppel Islanders: A Supplement to the Craniology of the Aborigines of Queensland’, in A. & P.A., 1972, vol. 7, p. 12.
African pygmies: R. Oliver and J. D. Fage, A Short History of Africa (London, 1966), p. 19.
A. G. Thorne, ‘Mungo and Kow Swamp: Morphological Variation in Pleistocene Australians’, Mankind, 1971, vol. 8, pp. 86–9.
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Blainey, G. (1975). The Tasmanians: Outline of a Puzzle. In: Triumph of the Nomads. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02423-0_3
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