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Most people think of Australia as a new country, now there is growing evidence that it is one of the very oldest sites of human civilisation. In September 1996, claims that Aborigines had been living at Jinmium, in north western Australia 116,000 years ago made international headlines. The announcement was greeted with amazement, then disbelief partly because this is double the accepted age of the earliest occupation of Australia. If the controversial dates are correct, there are major implicati

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Producer
Geoffrey Burchfield

Production Details

Production Completion
1997
Genre
History and national identity, Science
Production Company
ABC Science Unit

Sales

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