Proto- Australoid race:
The Australoid race is a
broad racial classification. The concept originated with a typological method
of racial classification. They were described as having dark skin with wavy
hair, in the case of the Veddoid race of South Asia (including the eponymous
Vedda people indigenous to Sri Lanka) and Aboriginal Australians, or hair
ranging from straight to kinky in the case of the Melanesian group.
According to this model of classification, Australoid peoples ranged throughout Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, New
Guinea, Melanesia, the Andaman Islands and the Indian subcontinent, as well as
parts of the Middle East.
Their existence have been discussed in the "Indus Valley
Civilization". They are said to "form the bedrock of the
people". They cultivated rice and vegetables and made sugar from
sugarcane. Their language has survived in the Kol or Munda (Mundari) in Eastern
and Central India.
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