Good discussion here of the peopling of #Sahul by a 'long chronology', that is reaching New Guinea and Australia by 60,000 years.

Previous data showing Aus and PNG populations carry the signature of Neanderthal interbreeding (some 55-50 Kya in the Middle East) suggests the 'chronology' was more recent OR all the first wave left no descendants today. But these calibrated #mtDNA results suggest different, people do descend from the early pioneers, entering via two routes, the main one N Indonesia-Philippines, and another southerly one.

#archaeogenetics #maritimearchaeology

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-guineans-aboriginal-australians-descend-groups.html

New genomic evidence suggests humans reached Sahul around 60,000 years ago via two distinct routes. The findings highlight early seafaring, deep population roots, and complex migrations shaping Indigenous Australian and Papuan ancestry. #Anthropology #Archaeogenetics #Sahul #HumanOrigins https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-first-horizon-how-ancient-genomes

https://www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/tell-me-a-story/

#DeepTime #FirstNations #Sahul #Sunda

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 11: with some 70,000 years of human history, #Australia is actually more ancient than Europe.

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/06/ancient-australia.html
#science #anthropology #migration #sahul #OutOfAfrica

Scientists map the lost 'Atlantis' continent that lies off Australia
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/scientists-map-the-lost-atlantis-continent-that-lies-off-australia #archaeology #geography #australia #Sahul #human #migration

Researchers Reconstruct Landscapes That Greeted The First Humans In Australia Around 65,000 Years Ago
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https://phys.org/news/2024-04-reconstruct-landscapes-humans-australia-years.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47662-1 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #anthropology #archaeology #indigenous #migration #sahul #Australia #aboriginal #FirstNation #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #NewGuinea #Tasmania #sealevel #hominin #hominoid #landscape #evolution #climatechange #megafauna #population #demographics #environment #environmental #climatechange #landscapeevolution #model #modeling #terrains #foodsecurity #watersecurity #drivers #huntergatherers #community #simulations #physiographic #physiography

Researchers reconstruct landscapes that greeted the first humans in Australia around 65,000 years ago
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-reconstruct-landscapes-humans-australia-years.html

Physiography, foraging mobility, and the first peopling of Sahul https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47662-1

"Seventy thousand years ago, the sea level was much lower than today. #Australia, #NewGuinea, and #Tasmania formed a connected landmass known as #Sahul. Around this time the first humans arrived in Sahul, a place previously devoid of any #hominin species."

Australien hatte ein „Doggerland“ des Südens. Versunkene Landmasse Sahul war für erste Menschen Passage und Refugium zugleich. #Sahul #Australien #Eiszeit #Landbruecke #Erdgeschichte
https://www.scinexx.de/news/geowissen/australien-hatte-ein-doggerland-des-suedens/

People once lived in a vast region in north-western Australia – and it had an inland sea
https://theconversation.com/people-once-lived-in-a-vast-region-in-north-western-australia-and-it-had-an-inland-sea-219505 #australia #sahul #population #continentalshelf #archaeology

A lot of our recent #CABAH research on past human migrations highlighted in this new @cosmosmagazine article:

'The quest to understand when ancient migration to #Australia began'

https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/the-quest-to-understand-when-ancient-migration-to-australia-began/

#migration #Indigenous #Sahul #FlindersUniversity

‘Archeologists Map Hidden Landscape Where The First Australians Emerged’

#ScienceAlert #Archeology #Sunda #Sahul

Remapping the superhighways traveled by the first Australians reveals a 10,000-year journey through the continent - New, sophisticated models combined recent improvements in demography and models of wayfinding based on geographic inference to show the scale of the challenges faced by the ancestors of Indigenous people making their mass migration across the supercontinent more than 60,000 years ago. #Australia #Sahul #peopling http://bit.ly/3Yj4aoO

My #interview yesterday by Deb Tribe of ABC Adelaide about our research on human migration patterns across the former supercontinent of #Sahul

https://soundcloud.com/corey-bradshaw/remapping-the-superhighways-travelled-by-the-first-australians-reveals-a-10000-year-journey