{"id":2260,"date":"2013-04-24T15:41:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T11:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ankakh.am\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2013-04-24T15:41:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T11:41:31","slug":"original-australians-numbered-1000-3000-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=2260","title":{"rendered":"Original Australians numbered 1,000-3,000: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/\u0562\u0576\u056b\u056f.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2257\" alt=\"\u0562\u0576\u056b\u056f\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/\u0562\u0576\u056b\u056f.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>Australia was first settled by between 1,000 and 3,000 humans around 50,000 years ago, but the population crashed during the Ice Age before recovering to a peak of some 1.2 million people around five centuries ago, a study said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Estimating the early population of Australia is a source of debate in anthropology, partly because it touches on how European colonisation affected the country&#8217;s indigenous people.<\/p>\n<p>The newcomers crossed via a land bridge from Papua New Guinea, across a continental shelf that is now flooded, according to a common theory.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers grew but then fell by as much as 60 percent between 21,000-18,000 years ago during the peak of the last Ice Age, when Australia became cooler and far drier than it is today, Williams believes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia was first settled by between 1,000 and 3,000 humans around 50,000 years ago, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}