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Data and R code associated with the paper:

<a href="http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=1sO0O3wAAAAJ&view_op=list_works">BRADSHAW, CJA</a>, <a href="https://stefanicrabtree.com/about-stefani/">SA CRABTREE</a>, <a href="https://santafe.edu/people/profile/devin-white">DA WHITE</a>, <a href="https://research.jcu.edu.au/portfolio/sean.ulm">S ULM</a>, <a href="https://research.jcu.edu.au/portfolio/michael.bird">MI BIRD</a>, <a href="https://www.emmconsulting.com.au/about/leadership-team/dr-alan-william-2/">AN WILLIAMS</a>, <a href="http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/frederik.saltre">F SALTRÉ</a>. 2022. <a href="http://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/a45fw">Directionally supervised cellular automaton for the initial peopling of Sahul</a>. <em>OSF Preprints</em> doi:10.31219/osf.io/a45fw (in review elsewhere)
<a href="http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=1sO0O3wAAAAJ&view_op=list_works">BRADSHAW, CJA</a>, <a href="https://stefanicrabtree.com/about-stefani/">SA CRABTREE</a>, <a href="https://santafe.edu/people/profile/devin-white">DA WHITE</a>, <a href="https://research.jcu.edu.au/portfolio/sean.ulm">S ULM</a>, <a href="https://research.jcu.edu.au/portfolio/michael.bird">MI BIRD</a>, <a href="https://www.emmconsulting.com.au/about/leadership-team/dr-alan-william-2/">AN WILLIAMS</a>, <a href="http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/frederik.saltre">F SALTRÉ</a>. 2022. <a href="http://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/a45fw">Directionally supervised cellular automaton for the initial peopling of Sahul</a>. <em>OSF Preprints</em> doi:10.31219/osf.io/a45fw (in review in <em>Quaternary Science Reviews</em>)

## Abstract
Reconstructing the patterns of expansion out of Africa and across the globe by modern <em>Homo sapiens</em> have been advanced using demographic and travel-cost models. However, modelled routes are ipso facto influenced by expansion rates, and vice versa. It is therefore timely to combine these two intertwined phenomena in reconstructions of the history of our species. We applied such an approach to one of the world’s earliest peopling events in Sahul covering the period from 75,000–50,000 years ago by combining recently published models producing highest-likelihood ‘superhighways’ of movement with predictions of expansion based on a demographic cellular automaton. The superhighways-supervised model approximately doubled the predicted time to continental saturation (~ 10K years; 0.4–0.5 km year<sup>-1</sup>) compared to that based on the original, directionally unsupervised model (~ 5K years; 0.7–0.9 km year<sup>-1</sup>), suggesting that rates of migration need to account for topographical constraints in addition to rate of saturation. The modification indicates a slower progression than Neolithic farmers (~ 1 km year<sup>-1</sup>) from the Near East through Europe. Additionally, the scenarios assuming two dominant entry points into Sahul exposed a previously undetected movement corridor south through the centre of Sahul early in the expansion wave. Our combined model infrastructure provides a data-driven means to examine how people initially moved through, settled, and abandoned different regions of the globe, and demonstrates how combining sophisticated continental-scale path modelling with spatial-demographic models can shed light on the complicated process of ancient peopling events.
Reconstructing the patterns of <em>Homo sapiens</em> expansion out of Africa and across the globe has been advanced using demographic and travel-cost models. However, modelled routes are <em>ipso facto</em> influenced by migration rates, and vice versa. We combined movement ‘superhighways’ with a demographic cellular automaton to predict one of the world’s earliest peopling events — Sahul between 75,000–50,000 years ago. Novel outcomes from the superhighways-weighted model include (<em>i</em>) an approximate doubling of the predicted time to continental saturation (~ 10,000 years) compared to that based on the directionally unsupervised model (~ 5,000 years), suggesting that rates of migration need to account for topographical constraints in addition to rate of saturation; (<em>ii</em>) a previously undetected movement corridor south through the centre of Sahul early in the expansion wave based on the scenarios assuming two dominant entry points into Sahul; and (<em>iii</em>) a better fit to the spatially de-biased, Signor-Lipps-corrected layer of initial arrival inferred from dated archaeological material. Our combined model infrastructure provides a data-driven means to examine how people initially moved through, settled, and abandoned different regions of the globe.

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Prof <a href="http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=1sO0O3wAAAAJ&view_op=list_works">Corey J. A. Bradshaw</a> <br>
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