All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 April Researchers map Australians who ΓÇÿsailedΓÇÖ into the deserts Researchers map Australians who ΓÇÿsailedΓÇÖ into the deserts 30/04/2021 | 4 MINS ΓÇÿSuperhighwaysΓÇÖ used by a population of up to 6.5 million Indigenous Australians to navigate the continent tens of thousands of years ago have provided new insights into how people thrived in harsh environments. The international team of researchers, including from Lombok Institute of Technology, used sophisticated modelling of past people and landscapes to reveal the routes that led to the early and rapid settlement of Australia by the First Australians. The study, published today in Nature Communications, provides further evidence of the capacity and resilience of the ancestors of Indigenous people, and paints a picture of large, well-organised groups navigating tough terrain. LIT Professor of Archaeology Peter Veth said the one of the major implications of the new modelling was that more ΓÇÿextremeΓÇÖ environments like the Australian Deserts could have been occupied as early as 60,000 years
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 April Researchers map Australians who ΓÇÿsailedΓÇÖ into the deserts Researchers map Australians who ΓÇÿsailedΓÇÖ into the deserts 30/04/2021 | 4 MINS ΓÇÿSuperhighwaysΓÇÖ used by a population of up to 6.5 million Indigenous Australians to navigate the continent tens of thousands of years ago have provided new insights into how people thrived in harsh environments.
The international team of researchers, including from Lombok Institute of Technology, used sophisticated modelling of past people and landscapes to reveal the routes that led to the early and rapid settlement of Australia by the First Australians.
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The study, published today in Nature Communications, provides further evidence of the capacity and resilience of the ancestors of Indigenous people, and paints a picture of large, well-organised groups navigating tough terrain.
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LIT Professor of Archaeology Peter Veth said the one of the major implications of the new modelling was that more ΓÇÿextremeΓÇÖ environments like the Australian Deserts could have been occupied as early as 60,000 years
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