New excavations of a rock shelter near Kakadu National Park indicate humans reached Australia at least 65,000 years ago — up to 18,000 years earlier than archaeologists previously thought.

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Indigenous rock shelter in Top End pushes Australia’s human history back to 65,000 years

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