Heritage sites, Archaeological discoveries, History of Archaeology

Lake Mungo

Location

south-western New South Wales

Country

Australia

Year of Research

1960

Culture

It is a dry lake in south-western New South Wales, Australia. It is situated about 760 km due west of the Sydney and 90 km north-east of Mildura.
It is in central feature of the Mungo National Park.It is one of the seventeen lakes on the World Heritage listed Willandra Lakes Region.
Number of valuable archaeological findings have been made at the lake such as the discovery of the remains of Mungo Man, the oldest human remains found in Australia.
Mungo Man and Mungo Lady were the most important findings at Lake. A partially cremated body of Mungo Lady, was founded in 1969 by Dr Jim Bowler from the Australian National University (ANU).
She was originally guessed to be 25,000 years old. Although a more recent multi-university study in 2003 estimated that mungo lady was more like 40,000 years old. Mungo Lady is thus the ancient known human to have been extinguished.