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Recent Articles on the Australian Colonization

The Populating of Australia and New Guinea

By K. Kris Hirst, About.com

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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