c. 65000 BCE–c. 50000 BCE
Early human occupation of Sahul
Human evolution & hominins · Homo sapiens · Dispersión · Arqueología
Archaeological evidence at Madjedbebe in northern Australia supports human presence in Sahul around 65,000 years ago, though chronologies and routes remain under review. Reaching Sahul required sea crossings and adaptation to landscapes occupied by human communities; it should not be narrated as an automatic expansion of one population or as the beginning of the history of today’s Aboriginal peoples.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- End
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: dating window; it does not mean the event lasted for that entire interval.
Sources
- www.nature.com (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2017-07-20
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
- Date evidence
- Declared in the cited source’s publisher metadata.
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This record is an editorial synthesis. Consult the sources to check claims and their limits. Chronological relationships alone do not establish causation.