The SA Museum was home to Norman Tindale, the originator of the Tindale Map, documenting over 250 Aboriginal territories on Australia. The Aboriginal communities are said to have been here some 50,000 years, surviving on the continent. Their customs and tools are similar to various Pacific islanders who came in larger numbers with the advent of the early outrigger canoe. The European explorers and settlements did not occur until the late 1700s and early 1800s.
