Buried tools and pigments tell a new history of humans in Australia for 65,000 years

Thursday, July 20, 2017 - 06:02 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The question of when people first arrived in Australia has been the subject of lively debate among archaeologists, and one with important consequences for the global story of human evolution. Australia is the end point of early modern human migration out of Africa, and sets the minimum age for the global dispersal of humans.

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