DNA Evidence of Gunditjmara Aborigines of Victoria, S. Australia
1. Principal DNA Report relied upon
(a) Title: ‘Evolution of Modern Humans’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 337 (1992) 159-165 – weak evidence
(b) Author: JoannaMountain
2. Précis of the Report’s findings
This is a very generalised report and weak evidence of recent Chinese voyages.
3. Corroboration or supporting DNA Reports
It is believed there are reports which the Australian Government does not wish to have published.
4. Corroboration or supporting reports into ailments or diseases which suggest Chinese arrived by sea
None that are known save for Machado Joseph disease amongst the Aboriginal people ofArnhem Land.
5. Did the first Europeans to reach the area in which the Gunditjmara people live find Chinese already there?
6. Other evidence showing links with China
(a) Principal
(b) Secondary links with China
(i) The Gunditjmara people claim their ancestors came from overseas and instituted eel farming inAustralia.
(ii) Wrecked junks at Warrnambool andKingIsland
(iii)Maps ofAustralia drawn centuries before Europeans reached there, not least that of Toscanelli (1474) which shows the internal river systems ofAustralia.
7. Evidence in Synopsis of Evidence on website www.gavinmenzies.net.
Paras 1, 2, 6-13, 18, 20.
8. Reference in 1421 The Year China Discovered America
Chapters 6 and 7.
