When did Homo sapiens first reach Southeast Asia and Sahul?

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Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112; bDepartment of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC 3083, Australia; cDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia; dExtent Heritage Pty Ltd, Pyrmont, NSW 2009; eCollege of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia; fPalaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia; gAustralian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia; hSchool of Physical Sciences and Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005; iWeapons and Combat Systems Division, Defence Science and Technology Group, Edinburgh, SA 5111, Australia; jDepartment of Archaeology and Natural History, School of Culture, History and Natural History, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia; kMuseum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT 0801; l Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization Land and Water, Winnellie, NT 0822 Australia; mResearch Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia; and nAustralian Centre for Ancient DNA, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia Author contributions: J.F.O., J.A., M.A.J.W., A.N.W., C.S.M.T., N.A.S., J.K., G.B., and A.C. designed research; J.F.O., J.A., M.A.J.W., and A.C. wrote the paper; A.N.W. drafted Fig. 1 and Fig. S3; and M.A.J.W. provided Figs. S1 and S2. The authors declare no conflict of interest. This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. Published under the PNAS license.