An idea that occurred to me today: What if the Kanak people of New Caledonia had reached and settled nearby Australia, more specifically the Queensland coast? How would their civilization develop? How would they interact with the Aboriginal Australians and, later, with the European colonists? @Jared
At which time? Because the Kanak people go way, way back. Looking at the earliest possible timeframe:
Couldn't this basically be happening in the 1000-1200BCE timeframe? As for how their civilization might develop, and how they'd interact with the Aboriginal Australians- we basically already have a fairly good idea, from how their civilization developed and how they interacted with the Aboriginal Papuans. All of the stuff they'd bring with them, and introduce to the Aboriginal Australians, though? All those domesticates, along with crops, horticultural practices and pottery? They'd definitely have a huge impact. And from there, with thousands of years still to go before the first European explorers are set to arrive on the scene, you could go literally anywhere with the story if you wanted to.
