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A lock of hair reveals Indigenous Australia is about 70,000 years old

Hair strands an Aboriginal man gave an ethnologist travelling across the country in the 1920s indicates Indigenous Australia is older than we thought.

A lock of hair reveals Indigenous Australia is about 70,000 years old
A lock of hair reveals Indigenous Australia is about 70,000 years old Source: Flickr

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By Panos Apostolou, John Hayes Bell

Source: NITV, SBS News, SBS Greek



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