Our research, published in Science Advances today, shows it is possible to determine the origin of Aboriginal Australian remains using DNA-based methods, enabling their return to Country.

A new look at ancient bones with the latest DNA technology has confirmed Aboriginal Australians as the continent's first people. Human remains at Lake Mungo are the oldest in Australia 2001 ...

Prior to the new study, only one ancient individual's DNA had been retrieved: a person of aboriginal descent from the Willandra Lakes region seen here. robertharding / Alamy Stock Photo During the ...

Previous mitochondrial DNA studies on Aboriginal Australians have involved fewer than 100 participants. Despite being one of the oldest continuous cultures in the world, Aboriginal Australians are ...

Home-testing kits from US companies such as AncestryDNA are being increasingly used by people seeking to find Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander DNA so people can identify as Indigenous.

This made the man’s DNA a perfect candidate for looking at the history of Aboriginal migration. Studying his DNA, the researchers found that the ancestors of Australian Aboriginals had split from the ...

Aboriginal leaders are calling on the federal government to strengthen its plans for a missing-persons and unidentified-remains DNA data bank, saying families of vanished women need answers.

For centuries, Aboriginal Australians have said they belonged ... Now, one of the most extensive analyses of Indigenous Australian DNA to date suggests that they've been right all along.

A new study has found Aboriginal Australians settled the continent in one quick sweep and have remained in the same regions for almost 50,000 years. A NEW DNA ANALYSIS of hair samples has revealed ...

A study into the DNA of Aboriginal Australians has shed new light on when their ancestors left Africa and revealed extensive genetic diversity between west and east coast Indigenous populations.