Button cites disputed 120,000-year southern Australia hearth site claim

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"they dated this site to 120,000 years ago, which is double just about double the time that we think humans were in Australia. And it's in the very south of the country. And the archaeologists that have working there actually wrote in their paper that the evidence supports a cultural origin over a natural origin."

Michael Button cites researchers’ claims of charcoal, blackened stones and hearth-like structures in southern Australia dated to about 120,000 years ago. He says the dating is not widely accepted and notes the paper argues a cultural (human) origin fits better than natural processes, but lacks artefacts or skeletons.