Darling Downs cranium from 9000-11,000 years ago had remarkably large teeth and jaws fitting Aboriginal variation. Coobool Creek remains from 9000-13,000 years ago were larger than Aboriginals from last 6000 years. Kow Swamp skeletons dated 9500-14,000 years ago showed greater skeletal mass, robust jaws, and larger muscle attachments than modern Aboriginals. Cohuna skull had long high flat forehead, larger teeth and palate than current Australian average. Ancient footprints from 19,000-20,000 years ago made by tall athletic people up to two meters high running at Olympic speeds. Carpenters Gap rockshelter occupied 45,000-51,000 years ago with adaptation in technology and diet. Puritjarra rockshelter has artifacts over 30,000 years and oldest rock art. Grinding stones from 30,000-65,000 years ago used for seed flour making Aboriginals world's first bakers. South American indigenous groups share Australasian DNA from ancient Beringia mixing 15,000+ years ago. Chotuna, Karitiana, Suruí, Guarani Kaiowá, Xavante have excess genetic similarity to Australians and Oceanians. Ancient Pacific coast settlers in Americas had Australasian ancestry before inland spread. Robust features in Kow Swamp and Coobool Creek possibly from cranial deformation practices. Over 450 footprints reveal active hunters including one-legged hopper and family groups. Pilbara cave has 20,000-year-old campfire with kangaroo bones and 32,000-year-old tools.
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