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THE Pleistocene colonisation of Tasmania has long been predicated1,2 but no dated human occupation sites of that age have been reported before. The excavation of a cave site on Hunter Island3, 6 km off the coast of north-western Tasmania (40° 34′S, 144° 45′E; Fig. 1) has yielded the first radiocarbon date of Pleistocene age from a human occupation site in Tasmania.
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BOWDLER, S. Pleistocene date for man in Tasmania. Nature 252, 697–698 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/252697a0
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