SR, Foxy, Paul, et Al,

I have no doubt that over the milenia that of the many millions of people that lived in Aus managed to achieve many things. What is lacking from all of this is any indication that these advances were anything more than flashes in the pan that did not survive any appreciable length of time.

Belly,

"Why deny these traps and the homes around them existed
Do we need to tell ourselves these people had to be nomads, if so why?"

No one denies the existence of the fish traps and huts, where did you get that idea?

Reason alone tells us that the majority were nomads.

SM,

Flashes in the pan that did not survive?

Archaeologists would not agree with you.
Artifacts are being found that have indeed
survived the tests of time.

And we have notable achievers whose legacies
are still valued today, and many who are still contributing
and valued.

I won't mention all the politicians, athletes, sports
people, professors, Australians of the Year, artists,
song-writers, musicians, actors, comedians, writers.
Who were more than just flashes in the pan.

My personal favourite is - Shirley Colleen Smith
(1924-1998) better known as Mum Shirl. A prominent
Wiradjuri woman, social worker and humanitarian.

Her remarkable work included helping set up services like
the Aboriginal Legal Service, Medical Service, Housing Company,
the Tent Embassy and the Aboriginal Children's Services.

These services still contribute to Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander welfare in NSW and have inspired similar
ones around the country.

Is Mise,

Evidence tells us otherwise.

“People got here much earlier than we thought, which means of course they must also have left Africa much earlier to have traveled on their long journey through Asia and south-east Asia to Australia,” said the lead author, Associate Prof Chris Clarkson, from the University of Queensland.

Individual,

And they had to come along the coast of PNG to get to Australia, so clearly people got to PNG before they got to Australia.

And they had to come down the Malay Peninsula to get to PNG, so clearly people were in Malaya before they were in PNG.

And so on and so on.

We're all Africans, who have been in Africa longer than anybody else has been anywhere. The ancestors of Aboriginal people here are Africans, Arabians, Indians, Malayans and Papua-New-Guineans. Since Australia was the last stop on the journey, Aboriginal people were almost the last people to get to where they are now.

Joe

Just reading is all the evidence we need to see some want to believe only nomads lived here
Yes we all came out of Africa
And if you give it honest thought we too, once had to be nomads or we would still be in Africa