Has Australia backdated the Human Revolution? / Chris Stringer.
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Anthropology TodaySummary: Australia has usually played a supporting role in the story of human evolution Ñ regarded as a place at the edge of the inhabited world where modern humans arrived relatively late and then remained largely isolated from subsequent developments. However, new dates for a human burial at Mungo, New South Wales (Thorne et al. 1999) may not only force revision of views about the peopling of Australia, but also have a wider impact on ideas about modern human origins.
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| Analítica de revista | Biblioteca Central Colección General | General | ANTIQUITY-282/99 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | FICTICIO520 |
Antiquity 73 (1999): 876Ð879
Australia has usually played a supporting role in the story of human evolution Ñ regarded as a place at the edge of the inhabited world where modern humans arrived relatively late and then remained largely isolated from subsequent developments. However, new dates for a human burial at Mungo, New South Wales (Thorne et al. 1999) may not only force revision of views about the peopling of Australia, but also have a wider impact on ideas about modern human origins.
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