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Indigenous Australians are classed as the oldest living culture on earth, and have inhabited the continent for at least 65,000 years.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2024

"For example, the different species of Protemnodon are now known to have inhabited a broad range of habitats, from arid central Australia into the high-rainfall, forested mountains of Tasmania and New Guinea."

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2024

Oral traditions and archaeological evidence indicate the Blackfoot Indigenous peoples and their ancestors have inhabited a broad swatch of North America for more than 10,000 years.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people make up 3.8% of Australia's 26 million population and have inhabited the country for about 60,000 years.

From Reuters • Oct. 15, 2023

Although they worked no more than a few hundred feet apart, the two of them might as well have inhabited two warring continents.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee