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From: "Bob May" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Out of Africa
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:13:44 +1000
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Bob
Would you be referring to the HG C migration

Bob May
DNA Projects I2*, ISOGG new I2b, I2c HG & Tyler Surname and ISOGG YTree
Sunshine Coast
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Subject: [DNA] Out of Africa

Daniel Jenkins wrote

>If I recall properly , Findings in caves , in Australia of human
inhabitation have been dated to pre 60,000 years ago , albeit Neandertal .

I have never heard of Neanderthals in Australia. and as far as I know, there
has been no evidence found here of H. erectus, the closest being so-called
Java Man. Neither do we seem to have the little Hobbit person...

The earliest remains here are those of anatomically modern humans and
pre-date 60 kya. IMHO homo sapiens must have left Africa (at least those who
left via the southern route and the Gates of Despair) ~80 kya if they were
to have got east of Toba by the time of the eruption 74 kya. I think the
evidence is that homo sapiens arrived in Australia and/or New Guinea in only
one or at best, just a few very small groups - they remained isolated until
much later when probably Macassan traders arrived only hundreds of years
ago.

I would be fascinated to hear of any evidence of Neanderthal or any
hominids earlier than Modern Man in Oz.

Bob
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