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The Prehistory of the Australian Aborigine

The native inhabitants of Australia were long thought to be relatively recent immigrants. In the past decade archaeologists have discovered that man first reached the remote continent at least 16,000 years ago

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 214 Issue 3This article was originally published with the title “The Prehistory of the Australian Aborigine” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 214 No. 3 (), p. 84
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0366-84