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IIRC ancestors of Australian aborigines arrived from ~Indonesia around ~60k years ago, and the oldest rock art in the Northern Territory (the closest part to In
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IIRC ancestors of Australian aborigines arrived from ~Indonesia around ~60k years ago, and the oldest rock art in the Northern Territory (the closest part to Indonesia) with confirmed dating is apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabarnmung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabarnmung at ~28k years old, although its site has ~44k years of confirmed human use, which is exactly the same age as this Sulawesi find.
Very vaguely then ~60k years ago was "out of Africa", ~40-30k years ago was "Prehistoric Australasian art flourish", and ~4k years ago was "dawn of known civilizations". Makes you wonder what everyone was getting up to in the mean time... possibly killing off challengers! Nearby species died in the mean time - Flores hobbit[0] ~17k years ago, Red Deer Cave people[1] ~12k years ago.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Deer_Cave_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Deer_Cave_people