| Eora | |
|---|---|
| aka: Ea-ora, Iora, and Yo-ra Eora (AIATSIS), nd (SIL) | |
 Sydney Basin bioregion | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Language family: | Pama–Nyungan |
| Language branch: | Yuin–Kuric |
| Language group: | Yora |
| Group dialects: | Dharug |
| Area | |
| Bioregion: | Sydney Basin |
| Location: | Sydney |
| Coordinates: | 34°S 151°E / 34°S 151°E |
| Notable individuals | |
The Eora /jʊərɑː/[stress?] (also Yura)[1] are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales. Eora is the name given by the earliest European settlers[2][a] to a group of Aboriginal people belonging to the clans along the coastal area of what is now known as the Sydney basin, in New South Wales, Australia. The Eora share a language with the Darug people, whose traditional lands lie further inland, to the west of the Eora.
Contact with the first white settlement's bridgehead into Australia quickly devastated much of the population through epidemics of smallpox and other diseases. Their descendants live on, though their languages, social system, way of life and traditions are mostly lost.
Radiocarbon dating suggests human activity occurred in and around Sydney for at least 30,000 years, in the Upper Paleolithic period.[3][4] However, numerous Aboriginal stone tools found in Sydney's far western suburbs gravel sediments were dated to be from 45,000 to 50,000 years BP, which would mean that humans could have been in the region earlier than thought.[5][6]
- ^ Smith 2009, p. 10.
- ^ Attenbrow 2010, p. 35.
- ^ Macey 2007.
- ^ Heiss & Gibson 2013.
- ^ Attenbrow 2010, pp. 152–153.
- ^ Stockton & Nanson 2004, pp. 59–60.
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