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The Populating of Australia and New Guinea

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Allen, Jim and Simon Holdaway 1995 The contamination of Pleistocene radiocarbon determinations in Australia. Antiquity 69:101-112.

Bednarik, Robert G. 2000 Crossing the Timor sea by Middle Paleolithic raft. Anthropos 95:37-45.

Bednarik, Robert G. 1997 The earliest evidence of ocean navigation. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 26(3):183-191.

Bowler, J. M. and J. W. Magee 2000 Redating Australia's oldest human remains: A sceptic's view. Journal of Human Evolution 38:719-726.

Brown, Peter. ca 1997. Human origins and antiquity in Australia: an historical perspective.

Davidson, Iain and William Noble 1992 Why the first colonisation of the Australian region is the earliest evidence of modern human behaviour. Archaeology in Oceania 27:113-119.

Fox, C. L. 1997 Ancient DNA studies and new bioethic problems. Human Evolution 12(4):187-290.

Hudjashova, Georgi et al. 2007. Revealing the prehistoric settlement of Australia by Y chromosome and mtDNA analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition 10.107.0702928104

Morse, Kate 1993 Shell beads from Mandu Mandu Creek rock-shelter, Cape Rangepeninsula, Western Australia, dated before 30,000 bp. Antiquity 67:877-883.

O'Connell, James F. and Jim Allen 2004 Dating the colonization of Sahul (Pleistocene Australia--New Guinea): A review of recent research. Journal of Archaeological Science 31:835-853.

O'Connell, James F. and Jim Allen 1998 When did humans first arrive in greater Australia and why is it important to know? Evolutionary Anthropology 6(4):132-146.

Roberts, Richard G. and Rhys Jones 1994 Luminescence dating of sediments: New light on the human colonisation of Australia. Australian Aboriginal Studies 1994(2):2-17.

Thorne, Alan, et al. 1999 Australia's oldest human remains: age of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton. Journal of Human Evolution 36:591-612.

Turney C.S.M. et al. 2001. Early Human Occupation at Devil's Lair, Southwestern Australia 50,000 Years Ago. Quaternary Research 55 (1): 3-13.

Watchman, Alan, Paul Tacon, Richard Fullagar, and Lesley Head 2000 Minimum ages for pecked rock markings from Jinmium, northwestern Australia. Archaeology in Oceania 351-10.

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