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65,000 Year Old Site In Australia Reveals An Impossible Journey (And It Changes Everything)

65,000 years ago, a group of humans did the impossible. They crossed a deep-water ocean trench that had never been bridged by land, arriving in Northern Australia tens of thousands of years before history says boats were even invented. For decades, the "Out of Africa" model suggested a slow, terrestrial migration of humans across the globe. But a sandstone rock shelter in Arnhem Land, known as Madjedbebe, has shattered that timeline. Using high-tech Optical Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating, archaeologists have uncovered stone tools and artistic pigments buried in layers of sediment dating back 65,000 years. This discovery doesn't just push back the human story by 15,000 years—it reveals a forgotten chapter of human ingenuity. These "First Mariners" were not primitive wanderers; they were sophisticated navigators capable of crossing the Wallace Line and surviving in a new world.