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This study looks at the different possible paths that have so far been proposed for early human movement from mainland Southeast Asia to Australia+New Guinea. Following the first dispersal of our species out of Africa, the crossing of Indonesia's eastern islands (known as the Wallacean archipelago) represents humanity's first successful sea crossing. These ancestors of Australia's indigenous peoples are thought to have made this crossing by about 50 thousand years ago, but the exact route they followed through the various islands is currently debated.
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This page is a summary of: Islands Under the Sea: A Review of Early Modern Human Dispersal Routes and Migration Hypotheses Through Wallacea, The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, December 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2015.1119218.
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