Humans May Have Reached North America by More Than One Route

Re:Humans May Have Reached North America by More Than One Route by Bucephalus355 on Friday August 10, 2018 @01:36AM (#17730950)

Yes, it’s very likely most of the human pathway out of Africa to Australia would have gone over these kinds of routes.

For instance, Indonesia would have been connected to Australia more or less and so one could cross over land from Southeast Asia to Australia.

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Re:Humans May Have Reached North America by More Than One Route by jcranmer on Friday August 10, 2018 @10:36AM (#17733587)

Not quite. There are some oceanic trench faults in between Indonesian islands, so there was no full land connection.

At the last glacial maximum (and sea-level minimum), the big islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo would have been portions of a massive Southeast Asia peninsula. In addition, New Guinea would have been attached to Australia. The other Indonesian islands, such as Sulawesi and Timor, would still have been islands. The gaps between the islands would be somewhat smaller, perhaps about 25mi (even between Timor and Australia), which is close enough that you can sail between them without ever losing sight of land.

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Re:Humans May Have Reached North America by More Than One Route by brailsafe on Friday August 10, 2018 @01:44AM (#17730988)

As an aside, Indonesia was also home to a now extinct species of human called homoaflorensis.

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