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When the first human migrants arrived in Australia tens of thousands of years ago, they spread out across the land following a series of heavily traveled pathways that scientists have identified as the world’s first “superhighways.” With the assistance of a powerful supercomputer supplied by Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, these scientists have now produced a map that traces the twists and turns of these superhighways, and the migratory patterns of these original Australians, in exquisite detail, explains a news release by Sandia National Laboratories. One of the mapping project leaders, Sandia National Laboratories archaeologist and remote sensing specialist Devin White, has been using remote sensing, geospatial analysis, and high-performance computing strategies to produce detailed maps of migratory movement