How Long Have We Been Here?

Uncomfortably Curious · Jun 14, 2026 · 52m

Billy Griffiths, author of Deep Time Dreaming, is a historian who has spent years thinking about what it means to inhabit a continent where people have lived for at least 60,000 years — and how rarely that depth of time sits at the centre of how most Australians understand this country.This conversation covers how Australian archaeology went from a chaotic, under-resourced field to something more careful and collaborative — and why it took so long for ancient Australia to be taken seriously. Billy unpacks what "at least 60,000 years" actually means: what the evidence looks like, where it's…