New research conducted by a team of archaeologists and Earth scientists has shed light on the ancient landscapes of Sahul, the Pleistocene (Ice Age) landmass comprising Australia and New Guinea. The ...

We know it is more than 60,000 years since the first people entered the continent of Sahul—the giant landmass that connected New Guinea, Australia and Tasmania when sea levels were lower than today.

New research has revealed that the process of 'peopling' the entire continent of Sahul -- the combined mega continent that joined Australia with New Guinea when sea levels were much lower than today - ...

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The Diprotodon was one of the Sahul species which humans made extinct in the Pleistocene GREG WOOD/Getty Images Humans were the cause of huge extinction events in the Sahul, which took place in the ...

FOOTPRINTS in the sand marked the beginning of the end of an epic journey. They were left fleetingly on a mangrove-fringed beach in south-eastern Asia some 65,000 years ago, when a group of humans ...