Anatomically modern man emerged from the African savannah over one hundred thousand years ago and quickly spread himself over the globe. We coexisted with the Neanderthals until they became extinct about 25,000 years ago. Australia was colonized by the ancestors of the Aborigines over 50,000 years ago and, as there was no land-bridge, it must have been by boat. The Americas were colonized anywhere from 12000-30000 years ago. There was a landbridge across the Bering Strait from Siberia to Alaska but many authorities believe that ancestral man may have reached the Americas much sooner than 12000 years ago.
Archaeological discoveries keep pushing all the dates back.
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