The aborigines of Australia, also called aborigines, are people whose ancestors were indigenous to the Australian continent (the smallest continent in the world), that is, the mainland Australia or the island of Tasmania. British colonization of the continent began in 1788 when Legend Cook landed and claimed the land for Britain. Essentially, from the first time Europeans began settling in Australia, they were mistreated, enslaved, and passed laws and policies designed to limit the rights of Aboriginal people in an attempt to totally exterminate the original peoples of Australia. Responsibility for policy use motivated Britain's imperial desires. The first indications of the origin of the Aborigines, determined by carbon dating, showed traces of their existence 40,000 years ago; the first arrivals of indigenous Australian human migration probably came from Indonesia and New Guinea. Australian evidence was found in 1970 near the shore of a lake: stone objects, shells, bones and trash were discovered. Another significant change in the archaeological record after the discovery of 6000 BC was the introduction of a new stone age into Australia's prehistory. Stoneworking involved removing flakes and grinding the stone into sharp, precise points to make spears, but clubs were the most commonly used weapons. . Men usually dueled with heavy wooden swords and large shields. One of the main reasons Aboriginal culture was lost was that they did not have a specialized structure of government, monarchy, army or person in charge except for the head of the household whose control was limited to his immediate family. There was however a status, the first born could eat before the other sibling...... middle of paper ...... tradition and stories are increasingly recognized. Aboriginal inhabitants of Western Australia's southern and northern coasts preserve not only stories about extinct Australian megafauna, but also stories about rising sea levels and loss of offshore land due to the sea ​​level rise of the Flandrian transgression. , at the end of the Pleistocene ice age. Indigenous oral history details accounts of legendary and cultural information, and includes personal biographical accounts. Sally Morgan's "My Place" was one of the first Aboriginal biographies in Western Australia, and a number of Aboriginal people began to write about their lives and those of their families. The internationally renowned book "Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence" is an example of the autobiographies written over the years 1980..