Some dispute over dating of early entry to Sahul (#Pleistocene Greater #Australia) where the site of #Madjedbebe could be 64 Kya. How can this be consistent with a tight window of 50-55 Kya for the major ancestral migration of #Homosapiens from #Africa? Constraining those dates comes from the Neanderthal admixed sequences found today in all outofAfrican descendants.
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Isn't it possible that the people who were in Sahul by 65 Kya (Madjedbebe etc) just don't happen to be ancestors for people today who got there a bit later? Can't both be right?

#archaeology #Palaeogenomics #OutofAfrica #migration

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arco.70005

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