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People Once Lived in a Vast Region in Northwestern Australia – and It Had an Inland Sea

For much of the 65,000 years of Australia’s human history, the now-submerged northwest continental shelf connected the Kimberley and western Arnhem Land. This vast, habitable realm covered nearly 390,000 square kilometers, an area one-and-a-half times larger than New Zealand is today. It was likely a single cultural zone, with similarities in ground stone-axe technology, styles ...

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Two people on a large beach.

Australian Aborigines Settled 50,000 Years Ago

Researchers have now concluded the first complete sequences of the male Y chromosomes of Australian Aborigines. It has revealed a deep indigenous genetic history sketching all the way back to the original settlement of the continent 50 thousand years ago. The study was conducted by researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and several other ...

Troy Oakes

Australian Aborigine.