Sea level rise drowned a vast habitable area of north-western Australia driving long-term cultural change For most of the period of human occupation of Sahul (the combined Pleistocene landmass of Australia and New Guinea), lower sea levels exposed an exten…

AUSTRALASIA: “The presence of an extensive archipelago on the Northwest Shelf…facilitated the successful dispersal of the first maritime explorers from #Wallacea …to the vast terrestrial continent of #Sahul.”

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