8 years ago
New DNA technology confirms Aboriginal people as first Australians
A new look at ancient bones with the latest DNA technology has confirmed Aboriginal Australians as the continent's first people. Researchers say the findings overturn a 2001 paper that argued the oldest known Australian human remains found near Lake Mungo in New South Wales were from an extinct lineage of modern humans that occupied the continent before Aboriginal Australians. This claim was based on mitochondrial DNA extracted from Mungo Man's 40,000-year-old fossilised remains by a...
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