Talk:Pama–Nyungan

Around 5000 years ago something significant happened in Australia. New plants, animals, technologies and languages entered the continent.

77% of modern Australian aboriginal languages belong to one language group, Pama–Nyungan. The ancestor of this group, proto-Pama–Nyungan appeared in Australia around 5000 years ago.

According to the mainstream view today all of this is supposed to have happened without anyone settling the continent at the time.

With the wanton destruction of archaeological evidence going on in Australia (and elsewhere) at the moment we may lose our chance to definitively establish an answer.

If Australia only become disconnected from PNG 8000 years ago how can Australian aborigines have been isolated for 50000 years?