People once lived in a vast region in north-western Australia – and it had an inland sea

By Kasih Norman, Research Fellow, Griffith University
Chris Clarkson, Professor in Archaeology, The University of Queensland
Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
Frédérik Saltré, Research Fellow in Ecology for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
Tristen Anne Norrie Jones, Academic Fellow, University of Sydney

Our new study reveals a mosaic of habitable landscapes – now submerged by the ocean – once supported up to 500,000 people living in Australia’s northwest.

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