Super Nomads

70,000 years ago modern people are confined to Africa. But one tenacious bunch races across Asia and makes the first open-ocean crossing in human history. They encounter Sahul or Greater Australia - a virgin continent full of weird and deadly megafauna, deserts and glaciers. Trade networks soon criss-cross the continent and innovations in art and technology spread rapidly. They engrave the first image of a human face, they make the first maps. Against the odds the first Australians occupy every available niche for our species and thrive. This is the time when creation stories and songlines of Aboriginal cosmology come into being. First Australians today call this The Dreaming. It’s the longest period of social and religious continuity anywhere in the world.