Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

The Willandra Lakes Hominids

By 1989 1350 individuals had been discovered in the Willandra Lakes region. Among the remains from this region there were both robust and gracile forms of both sexes. There was also a variety of burial practices, cremation, inhumation and bone smashing.

Links

• Current Anthropology
• http://www.modernhumanorigins.net/wlh50.htm
• http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1557539

Sources & Further reading

1. Josephine Flood, Archaeology of the Dreamtime, J. B. Publishing
2. Phillip J. Habgood & Natilie R. Franklin, The revolution that didn't arrive: A review of Pleistocene Sahul, Journal of Human Evolution, 55, 2008