Model shows first Australians travelled on 'superhighways'
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Kyle Barnett
An interior passageway in Australia connects current day Adelaide, pictured here, to Broome, according to new research published Thursday. Photo by NASA/UPI | License Photo
April 29 (UPI) -- Researchers have successfully modeled an ancient "superhighway" system in Australia that shows how Aboriginal tribes were able to migrate across the land, according to two studies published Thursday in Nature Communications.
In the first study, scientists have created computer simulation models testing more than 125 billion possible paths of motion.
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Professor Corey Bradshaw, CABAH Chief Investigator at Flinders University, said researchers found indigenous Australians were incredibly well-organized and capable groups of people.