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Finding the Way 200,000,000–40,000 BCE

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200,000,000 BCE Gondwanaland is one huge landmass in the southern hemisphere. 65,000,000 BCE India separates from Gondwanaland, leaving a chain of plate fragments between Asia and Australia. 120,000–100,000 BCE Humans (homo sapiens) walk out of Africa, meeting and sometimes having children with Denisovans and Neanderthals. 65,000 BCE (or earlier) Humans in Australia. 60,000–40,000 BCE First indigenous art in Australia. 50,000 BCE Humans living in caves in the Philippines and Sulawesi. 49,000–43,000 BCE Yams and pandanuses cultivated in Papua New Guinea. 42,000 BCE Humans living in Timor caves. 40,000 BCE Humans living in comfort and plenty at Lake Mungo in Australia.

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Proposed route of anatomically modern humans