The humans that roamed Australia 50,000 years ago

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Building your website is fast, and user friendly with Odoo! Check it out at: https://www.odoo.com/r/nFrM Roughly 50,000 years ago humans first reached the landmass we call Sahul. What ghosts remain of these distant people? Can we piece together some aspects of their lives based on the archaeology, palaeontology and oral history of their descendants the modern Aboriginal Australians? Bonus video out now on patreon https://www.patreon.com/stefanmilo Watch my videos Ad free only on Nebula https://go.nebula.tv/stefanmilo Timestamps 0:00 first voyagers 4:35 when did people arrive? 9:40 across the land 11:41 actual monsters 14:32 beasts become myth 15:56 did we end them all? 19:39 art of extinct animals 21:40 wasps date artefacts 23:23 oldest oral history ever This is an exploration of what I've learnt, this is by no means exhaustive. Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature18299 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/arco.5207 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22968 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21416 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1608470113 https://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/akerman322 https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/the-spread-of-people-to-australia/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06831-w?fromPaywallRec=true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_McRae