Time Line of Ancient Oceania and Australia
Range:
9999 b.c.e. to 0700 c.e.-
38,000 b.c.e.
The first peoples to arrive in the largest islands in the South Pacific migrate from Eurasia and travel by sea south along the Australonesian archipelago, reaching Australia. The Djanggawul song cycle, one of the world's oldest continuously told myths of origin, is composed. -
30,000-9000 b.c.e.
The Tabonian (stone flake) tradition appears in Southeast Asian islands. - By...
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