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On the Pleistocene settlement of South America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Robert G. Bednarik
Robert G. Bednarik*
Affiliation:
Australian Rock Art Research Association, PO Box 216, Caulfield South, Victoria 3162, Australia
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Australia and the Americas provide the two case-studies of the late human settlement of a continent by, it seems, Homo sapiens sapiens. At one time the corollaries of first occupation of the Americas, at perhaps 12,000 b.p., were a similarly late settlement of Australia and the need for a land-bridge across the Bering Straits. But now the pattern of occupation in New Guinea and its offshore islands proves that a long sea-crossing was made there before about 40,000 b.p. Here an Australian researcher looks across the Pacific to the evidence that has been offered for a Pleistocene occupation in south America, of a date comparable with that in Sahul.

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Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 238 , March 1989 , pp. 101 - 111
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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