Thank you for the link.

Certainly worthy of consideration, though I notice they are speaking of rafting, rather than a canoe, dug-out or boat. The issue remains the nature of the crossing. The Timor Sea/Arafura Sea contains a “deep”, the crossing isn’t congenial to rafting.

Cheers, again, yet to be convinced. Still always happy to a method that would work.

To wit:

http://io9.com/5445843/ancient-proto+humans-traveled-to-europe-in-boats-130000-years-ago

But the whole Yowie thing here has always bothered me. Bigfoot in the US is logical given the landmass bridges over geological history. Asian sightings also make sense – and then there’s H.Florensis. But the Yowie doesn’t gel. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not about not wanting it to be so. An extant bipedal relict in Oz would be cool. Problem is the getting here is tough. The separation from Antartica/S. America was pre-primate. To the North New Guinea certainly joined Oz during the last Ice Age. H. Sapien certainly had the seafaring skills to make an Indo-Australia crossing. But what other species had those skills? The description of the Yowie doesn’t fit with boat building and the Indo-Australia crossing is is no mean feat (ask the boat refugees arriving in recent years – drowning is common).

I’m still waiting, after many years, to read of a credible method of arrival. It’s not so much the Yowie I’m skeptical of, but rather how it could have arrived. Barring extremely unlikely parallel evolution in marsupials.