For most of the period of human occupation of Sahul (the combined Pleistocene landmass of
Australia and New Guinea), lower sea levels exposed an extensive area of the northwest of …

The timing and cause of megafaunal extinctions are an enduring focus of research interest
and debate. Despite the developments in the analysis of coprophilous fungal spores (CFS) …

Archaeological data and demographic modelling suggest that the peopling of Sahul
required substantial populations, occurred rapidly within a few thousand years and …

At the time of European arrival on the Australian continent, sophisticated Indigenous
societies practiced land management across Australia's extensive tropical savannahs. Fire …

The ability of our ancestors to switch food sources and to migrate to more favourable
environments enabled the rapid global expansion of anatomically modern humans beyond …

The extinction of a species is a key demographic event often signalling major climatic,
ecological and/or evolutionary shifts that can be investigated using the fossil record. In that …

The antiquity of human dispersal into Mediterranean islands and ensuing coastal adaptation
have remained largely unexplored due to the prevailing assumption that the sea was a …

There are few archaeological sites that contain records for Pleistocene coastal occupation in
Australia, as is the case globally. Two major viewpoints seek to explain why so few sites …

The population dynamics that followed the Out of Africa (OoA) expansion and the
whereabouts of the early migrants before the differentiation that ultimately led to the …

The peopling of Sahul (the combined landmass of New Guinea and Australia) is a topic of
much debate. The Kimberley region of Western Australia holds many of Australia's oldest …