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People cross open sea to Australia at least fifty thousand years ago, and perhaps sixty-five thousand. Their descendants' culture is the oldest continuous culture on earth.
How it was checked
- EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / OBSERVATION; Status: ADDED 2026-09-30
- Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the awakening to Babel: dated by ruling and by the record, placed by story where the text gives no date
- SourcesClarkson et al., Nature 547 (2017), Madjedbebe; O'Connell et al. 2018.
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