#mungo lady

[estel-and-agape]

Some Reading About The History and Significance of Lake Mungo

https://www.mpra.com.au/lake-mungo

Willandra Lakes/Mungo National Park

The Willandra Lakes region was once filled with water however four to five millions years ago much of the water receded and due to the lack

The complicated legacy of the 50-year-old discovery that rewrote Australian history

Five decades ago, when geologist Jim Bowler brushed sand away from the dome of an ancient human cranium, it changed the way we thought about

This is a good overview of Mungo Man’s story.

One year after Mungo Man and Mungo Lady's controversial reburial, Indigenous elders want answers

First Nations elders call on the New South Wales government to release an independent report into the reburial of 42,000-year-old Mungo Man

Elders reveal distress at sudden, secret Mungo Man burials

Indigenous elders upset by the sudden burial of the Mungo Man and Mungo Lady ancestral remains hope the new federal government will listen t

Here’s some information about the latest occurrences in the case.

[micewithknives]

Message From Mungo (2014) is still one of my favourite Australian Indigenous archaeology documentaries (and documentaries in general but that is not the point)

Like if you want to learn about repatriation and involvement of Traditional Custodians in Australian archaeology - but also like... Aboriginal archaeology (in NSW at least) in general its just so good ok

(technically you can watch it here - but only if you have an Australian VPN)

[angel94u]

I visit Mungo National Park a place known for the oldest Aboriginal burials found in Australia. Known as Mungo Man and Mungo Lady

[twitterexile]

42,000-year-old remains of Mungo Man to be reburied, but some elders are angry they weren't consulted

The remains of Mungo Man, Mungo Lady and 106 other Aboriginal people will be reburied in unmarked graves on country in NSW, against the wish

[archaeologicalnews]

Fifty years ago, at Lake Mungo, the true scale of Aboriginal Australians' epic story was revealed

This month marks the golden jubilee of a watershed event in the history of this nation that should cause all Australians to pause and reflect.

On July 15, 1968, while searching for clues to past climates and ancient landscapes on land under the joint care of Paakantyi/Barkindji, Ngiyampaa and Mutthi Mutthi people, Earth scientist Jim Bowler ambled across the cremated remains of an Aboriginal woman eroding from a crescent-shaped dune flanking the shoreline of now-dry Lake Mungo in western New South Wales.

The 40,000-year-old "Mungo Lady" and the equally ancient remains of Mungo Man, found nearby in 1974, doubled scientific estimates of how long Aboriginal people had called Australia home.

The discovery taught us Aboriginal history stretched back to a time when the only humans in Europe were Neanderthals, and people had not yet reached America. The scientific, cultural and political reverberations still resonate today. Read more.