ANT201H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Lapita Culture, Flightless Bird, Cuddie Springs
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Chapter 6: the peopling of australia and the new world. Populations of homo erectus had arrived on the indonesian island of java perhaps as early as 1. 8 million , and by 1. 6 million years ago, they were well established in china. Ngandong: a site on the island of java where the most recent known fossil of homo erectus was found, dating to between 46,000 and 27,000 years ago. Sahul: the landmass that connected much of southeast asia during periods of low sea level. Wallace line: the line that runs through wallacea and separates the unique animals and plants of australia from the animal and plant communities of southeast asia. In order to reach australia, humans had to cross the. Discovery of stone tools on the island of flores in. Wallacea suggests that homo erectus was able to cross bodies of water. There is no evidence that homo erectus ever crossed.
