Complex sentence: A common misconception among non-Aborigines is that there was not a way to count beyond two or three, however, Alfred Howitt, who studied the peoples of southeastern Australia, disproved this in the late nineteenth century (despite the myth's continuance today).
Split into simpler sentences: A common misconception among non-Aborigines is that there was not a way to count beyond two or three. However, Alfred Howitt, who studied the peoples of southeastern Australia, disproved this in the late nineteenth century (despite the myth's continuance today).