Old Stone AgeExploration Humans reach Australia c. 50,000 years agoMajor The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians arrive, founding one of the world's oldest continuous cultures. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Modern humans leave Africa → Humans reach Australia Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentnature.comHuman occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago (Clarkson et al., Nature 2017) ↗Editor's pickBookScott CaneFirst Footprints ↗Editor's pickBookBilly GriffithsDeep Time Dreaming ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubefirst people to reach Australia ↗Editor's pick