asia was the last continent to be settled by humans starting around 12 000 years ago.
which continent was the last one to be settled by humans starting around 12 000 years ago?
asia
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outside the mainland of afro-eurasia, these megafaunal extinctions followed a highly distinctive landmass-by-landmass pattern that closely parallels the spread of humans into previously uninhabited regions of the world, and which shows no overall correlation with climatic history (which can be visualized with plots over recent geological time periods of climate markers such as or ). australia and nearby islands (e.g., flores) were struck first around 46,000 years ago, followed by tasmania about 41,000 years ago (after formation of a land bridge to australia about 43,000 years ago), japan apparently about 30,000 years ago, north america 13,000 years ago, south america about 500 years later, cyprus 10,000 years ago, the antilles 6,000 years ago, new caledonia and nearby islands 3,000 years ago, madagascar 2,000 years ago, new zealand 700 years ago, the mascarenes 400 years ago, and the commander islands 250 years ago. nearly all of the world's isolated islands could furnish similar examples of extinctions occurring shortly after the arrival of humans, though most of these islands, such as the hawaiian islands, never had terrestrial megafauna, so their extinct fauna were smaller.
megafauna