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contain forward-looking statements which may not be realized. This is John

Bachelor speaking with Professor Nicholas Thomas of Cambridge University about his book,

Voyagers, the settlement of the Pacific.

The professor makes it very clear how extraordinary it is that the Pacific Islands are settled between 30,000 and 5,000 years ago.

Why? Because you had to go to sea and move between gaps of oceans without what you'd have to say sophisticated

navigational tools on foot to the edges of the shore but then across the

Pacific.

Here the professor describes the scale of this discovery, the inventiveness, the push of a population.

Much more of this tonight. Thank you.

Anatomically modern humans evolve in Africa.

They settle Europe, Asia and the Americas via a land bridge.

So people get around almost everywhere in the world on foot through

gradual migrations. But towards the end of the Pleistocene, towards the end of the last great Ice Age,

people in Southeast Asia start to move beyond land.

Initially through short distance crossings.

Walaisia is a set of islands, broadly speaking,

between New Guinea and Ireland Southeast Asia, Java, Borneo, much of that land was, the land was far more extensive during the ice age because the sea levels were lower,

but there were always deep straits that separated what we call Sunda that greater

Southeast Asian landmass and islands such as New Guinea. But early on 50 to 60,000 years ago people began to cross that channel.

We don't really know how or why but very likely on rafts made of bamboos. They went on to settle New Guinea, huge landmass,

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