Oceania in the prehistory (before 3500 BC). Before writing, the record is stone, bone and DNA. These articles cover human origins, the ice ages and the first farmers, up to the moment cities and script appear.
Single sand grains put the lowest tools at Madjedbebe, on Mirarr country in Arnhem Land, at about 65,000 years. Some archaeologists dispute the date.
· 63,000 BCA 2016 Nature paper put people in arid Australia by about 49,000 years at Warratyi, north of Adelaide. Its Diprotodon radius is still argued over.
· 47,000 BCJim Bowler found burnt bones on the shore of Lake Mungo on July 15, 1968. Dated to 40,000 years in 2003, Mungo Lady and Mungo Man were reburied in 2022.
· 38,000 BCMary Pappin Jr. found the first Willandra Lakes footprints in August 2003. Optically dated to 19,000 to 23,000 years, the count rose from 124 to 563 by 2007.
· 21,000 BCRadiocarbon dates on 24 mud-wasp nests over and under 21 Gwion figures gave 11,500 to 12,700 years in 2020. A kangaroo painting dated in 2021 is older.
· 10,000 BCDCCEEW dates Gunditjmara stone eel-channel construction at Budj Bim to at least 6,600 years old; UNESCO inscribed the site in 2019.
· 4600 BC
