2024
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48395-x
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Abrupt onset of intensive human occupation 44,000 years ago on the threshold of Sahul

Ceri Shipton,
Mike W. Morley,
Shimona Kealy
et al.

Abstract: Archaeological evidence attests multiple early dispersals of Homo sapiens out of Africa, but genetic evidence points to the primacy of a single dispersal 70-40 ka. Laili in Timor-Leste is on the southern dispersal route between Eurasia and Australasia and has the earliest record of human occupation in the eastern Wallacean archipelago. New evidence from the site shows that, unusually in the region, sediment accumulated in the shelter without human occupation, in the window 59–54 ka. This was followed by an abr… Show more

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