Aborigines

Ancient Sources
In Origo Gentis Romanae IV.1, the name “Aborigine” is formulated as being due to: “…Some, however, relate that, when the earth had everywhere been covered by a deluge, many of diverse locales settled in the mountains to which they had fled: certain of them, seeking a home, having arrived in Italy, were called Aborigines,evidently from the Greek term, from mountains' peaks, which they term orê. 2. Others, because they came errant to that place, wish them first to have been named Aberrigines, afterward—with one letter changed, another removed—Aborigines.”

Modern Literature
In The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity, Benjamin Isaac mentions Ogilvie and Richmond referring to “the short, dark race of non-Aryan stock which was widely spread over the Mediterranean lands and beyond in the neolithic period.” and states that “These aboriginal Mediterranean folk, swarthy little people, who were not Indo-Europeans, used to be a stock presence in modern books about the Mediterranean and the Near East in the period before the arrival of the Greeks.” Apparently the Mediterranean aborigines worshipped a Mother goddess. The idea of mixed peoples connects with this concept, as after the arrival of the Aryan races and the Greeks, it is thought that the groups intermixed, or in some cases that the Aborigines were subdued.