Currently a clade (distantly) related to the Siberian inhabitants of the Denis Cave make up quite a bit of the genome opposite the Sunda Strait in "Sahul" - now New Guinea. My ancestors, despite being Southeast Asian on (apparently) either side, hadn't taken on much of that.
Solution: these Dennies were the true aboriginal population of New Guinea / Australia. They were subsequently swamped in the Pama–Nyungan blast.
... excepting maybe across that last, almost southernmost strait. (Before that southernmost continent. Good luck with that!)
Few Tasmanians bred true with Europeans, by the time the latter first got to Van Diemen's (and believe me, in The Savage Coast, it wasn't for lack of effort). The Tasmanians might not have bred true even with mainland "Abos", by then.
As it happens: the Pama–Nyungan Speaking Peoples weren't abo's. Not to Southeast Australia.
Maybe George Martin had some true insight. The people of our "Sothoryos" were human but... speciated humans.
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