Impact of introduced disease into Tasmanian Aboriginal populations and its role in depopulation.

Peter Roberts-Thomson

Impact of introduced disease into Tasmanian Aboriginal populations and its role in depopulation.

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Abstract

Western diseases, such as smallpox, measles, influenza and venereal disease, caused much havoc and death when introduced into the indigenous peoples of the new world, i.e. the peoples of the Pacific and the Americas. Similarly, the indigenous populations of mainland Australia suffered greatly from introduced disease when, for example, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, smallpox killed perhaps as much as half of the population.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	119-137
Number of pages	19
Journal	Tasmanian Historical Research Association: Papers and Proceedings
Volume	61
Issue number	2/3
Publication status	Published - Dec 2014

Keywords

introduced disease
Tasmanian aboriginal populations
depopulation
western disease
indigenous

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Impact of introduced disease into Tasmanian Aboriginal populations and its role in depopulation.

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