Mungo Man: 42,000-year-old Aboriginal remains to be reburied

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5. This link explains the land connections

and how people from Southeast Asia populated Australia and lands that are now separate islands but were once connected. There is no other way that they could have reached Australia (Sahul) except by boat, so, regardless of our modern skepticism about sailing technology that long ago, it apparently did happen. When we think of boat travel like Eurpeans used for reaching the Americas, we envision large ships with sails. But sturdy raft of secured logs with a shanty on top for shelter from the sun would have been possible for Homo sapiens to build 65,000 years ago to cross a straight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahul