When Did People First Arrive in Australasia? New Archaeogenetics Study Dates It to 60,000 Years Ago
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DNA analysis suggests first Australians arrived about 60,000 years ago
Humans first travelled to the ancient landmass that would become Australia and New Guinea about 60,000 years ago via two routes, a new genetic analysis suggests. The findings, published today in Science Advances, bring the date of when the First Australians arrived in Sahul — based on genetic evidence — much closer to those in the archaeological record of about 65,000 years. According to Christopher Clarkson, an archaeologist at Griffith Univers…
An international team of scientists has contributed what they describe as the strongest genetic evidence to date to solve one of the great debates of human prehistory: When and how did the first humans arrive in Australia, New Guinea and nearby islands? The answer, according to their study published in Science Advances, is [...]
A study concludes that the first humans on the former landmass, Australia and New Guinea, have arrived on two separate routes, much earlier than previously suggested by genetic analyses.
New genetic study reveals how modern humans first arrived in Australia 60,000 years ago
A sweeping genetic investigation is reshaping what researchers know about the first journeys of modern humans into Australia and its neighboring lands. Analysis of nearly 2,500 mitochondrial genomes from Indigenous communities across Australia, New Guinea, and the wider Pacific has produced one of the clearest timelines yet for the settlement of Sahul, an ancient continent […]
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