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https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/neanderthal-dna-may-refute-65-000-year-old-date-for-human-occupation-in-australia-but-not-all-experts-are-convinced
Humans did not arrive in Australia 65,000 years ago,
and likely didn't reach the land down under until
around 50,000 years ago, a controversial new paper
reports.
The reasoning behind the finding is that modern
humans didn't mate with Neanderthals until around
50,000 years ago, but Indigenous Australians have a
small percentage of Neanderthal DNA. So, the first
Australians could not have arrived until after
humans mated with Neanderthals.
But we can't yet rule out archaeological evidence
that places humans on the continent much earlier
than genetic models do, other experts say.
...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/arco.70002
Recent DNA Studies Question a 65 kya Arrival of
Humans in Sahul
ABSTRACT
Recent reports present evidence of Neanderthal
introgression among all non-African human
populations after 50 kya. Here we trace the
implications of this claim for Sahul history.
If correct, ancestral Sahul populations bearing
Neanderthal DNA must have arrived after this date.
Such data offer no support for a purported 65 kya
human presence on the continent.
...
There is a questioning response here
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/arco.70005
which unfortunately is in image pdf format. The
response is short, relates that all but one Sahul
site dates are 50kya or less and that the authors
of the paper relied on only two genomic papers.
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