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Perspectives from the Old World on the Habitation of the New
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
Abstract
Despite the much briefer period of research and many fewer archaeologists involved, there is now clear and incontrovertible evidence of human occupation in Australia at a period significantly earlier than can be documented with comparable evidence from the New World. An explanation of the differences in the present record between these two regions that relies on an insufficient study of situations favorable to the preservation of earlier material in the New World seems inadequate in light of the total accumulated evidence.
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Actualmente existen evidencias claras e incontrovertibles de la ocupación humana de Australia en una fecha significativamente anterior a la que ha sido documentada para el Nuevo Mundo con datos semejantes. Esta diferencia es aún más signiftcativa si se considera que en el primer caso menos arqueólogos han investigado este tema y durante un período más breve. Considerando la evidencia acumulada hasta el presente, no es posible explicar esta diferencia en los registros invocando unafalta de estudios relativos a situaciones favorables para la preservatión de material temprano en el Nuevo Mundo.
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