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Lake Mungo is a dry lake located in New South Wales, Australia. It is about 760 km (472 miles) due west of Sydney [ 1 ] and 90 km (56 miles) north-east of Mildura . The lake is the central feature of Mungo National Park , and is one of seventeen lakes in the World Heritage listed Willandra Lakes Region .
The Lake Mungo remains are three prominent sets of human remains that are possibly Aboriginal Australian: Lake Mungo 1 (also called Mungo Woman, LM1, and ANU-618), Lake Mungo 3 (also called Mungo Man, Lake Mungo III, and LM3), and Lake Mungo 2 (LM2). Lake Mungo is in New South Wales, Australia, specifically the World Heritage listed Willandra ...
The central feature of Mungo National Park is Lake Mungo, the second largest of the ancient dry lakes.The Mungo National Park is noted for the archaeological remains discovered in the park [5] the remains of Mungo Man, the oldest human remains discovered in Australia, and Mungo Lady, the oldest known human to have been ritually cremated. [6]
The area is representative of south-east Australian lunettes or dry lake beds with wind blown dunes on their eastern margins and flat floors, formerly lake bottoms. A lunette is a crescentic dune ridge commonly found on the eastern (lee) margin of shallow lake basins in eastern Australia, developed under the influence of dominant westerly winds.
Oct. 31—The crisp scrape of steel on a turquoise surface. Towering snow-dusted mountains bathed in golden light. Frozen water clear enough to spot fish and boulder gardens underfoot.
Lake Mungo, one of a chain of lakes in south-western New South Wales is now dry and its lunette is eroding and yeilding anceint Aboriginal[sic] relics. — Barbetti and Allen 1972, Nature 240, page 46-48
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Dry lakebed of Lake Mungo. For Mungo Lady's ancestors to get to the continent of Australia however, would have been very difficult. Around 50,000-70,000 years ago, in line with the "Out of Africa" theory, archaic humans must have had to migrate through the Northern Indonesian Islands, into New Guinea and then into Australia. [27]