The Diprotodon was one of the Sahul species which humans made extinct in the Pleistocene GREG WOOD/Getty Images Humans were the cause of huge extinction events in the Sahul, which took place in the ...

Showing where Australia's first people likely moved can give archaeologists more insight into their work NEW archaeological records provide evidence of a lost Atlantis-like landscape that early humans ...

We know it is more than 60,000 years since the first people entered the continent of Sahul—the giant landmass that connected New Guinea, Australia and Tasmania when sea levels were lower than today.

“This helps refine our understanding of human origins, maritime mobility, and early seafaring narratives,” one of the study’s authors said A major new genomic study has reignited the debate over when ...

Excavations in Papua New Guinea’s western highlands have turned up the oldest well-documented evidence of people in Sahul, a land mass that once joined the island to Australia. Stone tools and plant ...

There are many hypotheses about where the Indigenous ancestors first settled in Australia tens of thousands of years ago, but evidence is scarce. Few archaeological sites date to these early times.

Humans arrived in Australia at least 65,000 years ago, according to archaeological evidence. These pioneers were part of an early wave of people travelling eastwards from Africa, through Eurasia, and ...

The first humans arrived upon the landmass now known as Australia around 60,000 years ago along two distinct routes, according to a new genomics study. The question of when humans first arrived on the ...