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Has Australia backdated the Human Revolution?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Chris Stringer
Chris Stringer*
Affiliation:
Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, England. c.stringer@nhm.ac.uk
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Abstract

Australia has usually played a supporting role in the story of human evolution — regarded as a place at the edge of the inhabited world where modern humans arrived relatively late and then remained largely isolated from subsequent developments. However, new dates for a human burial at Mungo, New South Wales (Thorne et al. 1999) may not only force revision of views about the peopling of Australia, but also have a wider impact on ideas about modern human origins.

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AustraliaMungohuman originsfossilcolonizationdating

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Antiquity , Volume 73 , Issue 282 , December 1999 , pp. 876 - 879
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1999

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