History is full of stories of migrants overrunning indigenous peoples. Has anyone figured out which ethnic group has been in the same location the longest without interruption?
I think that both the Basques of northern Spain and southern France, and the Ainu of northern Hokkaido in Japan are likely candidates. Both were there when many early waves of migration moved thru, and remained. They’ve both been squeezed by the new majorities, but persist. Although I think the Ainu language has now officially died out.
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My WAG would be the Australian Aborigines. I believe they have been pretty much isolated from the time humans first spread into Australia until the English colonization. That displaced them to some extent, but they’re still there.
I’d vote for the aborigines of Australia (~40,000 to 50,000 years), or possibly the Khoisan peoples of central Africa–they exist in isolated pockets surrounded by people who seem to be descended from early herders/farmers that swept over Africa a fwe thousand years ago. Tough to say if they’ve been there for 100,000 years, though, or if they just kicked somebody else out the week before they get stomped by the farmers.