New DNA Analysis Shows Aboriginal Australians Are the World's Oldest Society

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3. The article says the land masses were once connected, which is when Australia was populated.

These humans eventually made their way to an ancient supercontinent, which was eventually split into Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea by rising tides. While that isolated them genetically from the rest of the world, their culture was strong and vibrant enough to develop new languages and traditions as they made their way across the continent, Devlin reports.

The only ancient people we know for sure crossed open sea to reach their new homeland were the Polynesians. It still blows my mind how Hawaii, a rock in the middle of the Pacific 2,000 miles from the nearest land mass, was populated.