Australoid

The Australoid race is a broad racial classification.

These early humans are believed to be Australoid or Negrito people.

Bohol was first settled by Australoid people, like the rest of the Philippines.

Very high rates of Blood Type O. -Australoid group.

Some of the survivors are largely Caucasoid; others are largely Australoid."

The Philippines was originally settled by Australoid peoples called Negritos which now form the country's aboriginal community.

Sundatony is regarded as having a more generalised, Australoid morphology and having a longer ancestry than its offspring, Sinodonty.

Then about 40,000 years ago, Australoid peoples related to modern Australian Aboriginals and Melanesians colonised Central Java.

The Bhils are frequently classified as an Australoid group, yet Bhil languages are Indo-European.

The first people to have settled in India during Paleolithic times appear to have been an Australoid group who may have been closely related to Aboriginal Australians.

The first, an Australoid people and the ancestors of modern day Melanesians and Australian Aboriginals, came to New Guinea and Australia about 4 to brad years ago.

According to this model of classification, Australoid peoples ranged throughout Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, New Guinea, Melanesia, Andaman Islands and India.

They are likely descendants of the indigenous Australoid populations of the Sunda landmass and New Guinea, predating the Austronesian peoples who later entered Southeast Asia.

Australoid skulls have been unearthed in Indonesia, and the Malaccans from the Celebes were constant visitors to Arnhem Land and the Kimberley area in recent centuries.

The Oraon adivasi tribe of eastern India and the Korku tribe of western India are considered to be examples of groups of Australoid origin.

Ethnic origins and linguistic affiliations in India match only inexactly, however: while the Oraon adivasis are classified as an Australoid group, their language, called Kurukh, is Dravidian.

However, he still recognized an Australoid substrate throughout the subcontinent, writing that "the earliest peoples who have left recognizable survivors were both Caucasoid and Australoid food gatherers.

Khasis and Nicobarese are considered to be Mongoloid groups and the Munda and Santals are Australoid groups, but all four speak Austro-Asiatic languages.

Australoid indigenous Australians and Polynesian Māori indigenous to New Zealand are not recorded to have met or interacted prior to 17th and 18th century European exploration of Australia.

Skulls of peoples with Australoid morphologies have been found in the Americas, leading to speculation that peoples with phenotypical similarities to modern Australoids may have been the earliest occupants of the continent.

One proponent, R. Ruggles Gates, argued in 1960 that "If the Ainu are partly of Australoid origin it is also clear that they are even more nearly derived from archaic Caucasian ancestry".

The physical appearance and skin colour of the Totos do not anyway confirm their Mongoloid origin; their brown and moderately bright colour tells of their Indian connection or blood-mixture with some people of Australoid origin.

Admixture has been an ever present and pervading phenomenon in the Philippines as early as when the Philippines were originally settled by Australoid peoples called Negritos and admixture occurred between this earlier group and the mainstream Malayo-Polynesian population.

Archaeologist Peter Bellwood claims that the vast majority of people in Southeast Asia, the region he calls the "clinal Mongoloid-Australoid zone", are Southern Mongoloids but have a high degree of Australoid admixture.

While people of predominantly Caucasoid racial origin generally speak Indo-Aryan languages and people of predominantly Australoid racial origin generally speak Dravidian languages, it nevertheless remains true that ethnic origins and linguistic affiliations in India sometimes do not correspond.