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What Do the Oldest Sites in Australia Reveal About Its First Settlers? - The Settlement of Ancient Sahul | Sleepy Facts About History
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The first humans to reach Australia did not walk there, nor did they simply drift on logs. They looked across at least eighty kilometres of open water, with no certainty that land awaited them, and chose to cross. This episode examines the deliberate maritime migration into the ancient continent of Sahul, exploring what that crossing required of the people who undertook it and what the archaeological record reveals about their capabilities.
The evidence spans from the deep channels of…
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