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Everything I've read about the Sentinelese up to now states they have been on the island for tens of thousands of years, possibly as long as 60,000 years, making them one of the longest divergent peoples in history. Yet a New York Times article on the recent killing of a missionary ( https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/world/asia/andaman-missionary-john-chau.html) seems to place their arrival much more recently, comparable to say the Maori or the settlers of Madagascar:

Anthropologists say the islanders’ ancestors possibly migrated from Africa more than a thousand years ago.
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