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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 ...
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 .
Jim Maurice Bowler AM FAHA (born 1930) is an Australian geologist known for discovering the Lake Mungo remains, which are considered the oldest human remains in Australia. [1] He is a professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences.
The varying morphological and metrical comparisons of the burials have distinguished them from modern Aboriginal crania [9] and also a more gracile group of Pleistocene remains found at Lake Mungo and Keilor. [10] These differences have been used to postulate separate arrivals of distinct groups of people. However, more recent comparison does ...
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]
Cremation dates from at least 17,000 years ago [2] [3] in the archaeological record, with the Mungo Lady, the remains of a partly cremated body found at Lake Mungo, Australia. [4] Alternative death rituals which emphasize one method of disposal – burial, cremation, or exposure – have gone through periods of preference throughout history.
Arguably the oldest human remains in Australia, the Lake Mungo 3 skull was given the age of 60,000 years by Gregory Adcock and his researchers. [20] However, this claim has been criticised, largely due to the process used to analyse the skull and the claims regarding the dating and the mtDNA found. [21]
Mungo Man and Mungo Woman, names of two sets of prehistoric human remains found in Australia - see Lake Mungo remains; John Mungo-Park (1918–1941), British fighter pilot; Mungo Jerry, a 1970s British rock group; Mungos, a mongoose genus; Mongo (disambiguation) St. Mungo's (disambiguation) Moengo, Suriname, a town; Moungo (department), Cameroon