Pre-British Australian connectedness: An explanatory paradigm

Pre-British Australian connectedness: An explanatory paradigm

Contemporary Aboriginal culture presents a narrative of some 50,000 years of pre-British isolation. This grounded research on Australia’s Early Peoples crosses many paradigm-shifting liminals. It uses a range of analytic techniques including Bayesian exploratory analysis to ask: ‘Was pre-British Australia connected to the rest of Southeast Asia?’ Connectedness is culturo-linguistic relatedness, so is broader than the linguistic realm. Inversely responsive to distance and time, it is not correlation. Publication 1 looked at the research question: How closely-related (‘connected’) was Australia’s Pama-Nyungan family at British intrusion? It found a radical unity of language, desinentiostatistics showing family affinity across PN Australia and Tasmania similar to close Germanic languages. Publication 2 turned to pre-British Australian connectedness in its external dimension. It addressed the question: Can Southeast Asian and Australian languages be reconstructed based on deep language relatedness? Fossilized linguistic forms supported a mid-Holocene Southeast Asian Linguistic Substratum extending to Australia. Game-changing Diachronic Phonetic Correspondence Rules were derived, to overcome the plague of non-unique reconstruction. Publication 3 investigated the question: Is Australian Aboriginal and Armenian language connected? Armenia’s millennia of genetic isolation were reflected in connectedness of synthetic verbal forms. Cognacy measures uncovered ground-breaking immediate subfamilial affinity between Sydney Aboriginal and Armenian branch languages. Publication 4 asked: Can pre-British Australian connectedness provide insights into the ancient foundations of monotheism? Thematic analysis exposed a revolutionary neolithic Southeast Asian monotheism, with Australians’ belief in one God and descent from Abraham revealed by diachrony, iconography, and ritual. Authentic lenses and frames of reference from Aboriginal apicals await researchers in colonial records, a time capsule of the Global Southeast.

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