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The shore of Lake Mungo. Landsat 7 imagery of Lake Mungo. The white line defining the eastern shore of the lake is the sand dune, or lunette, where most archaeological material has been found LM1 (red) LM3 (blue) The white line shows the eastern shore of the lake, the sand dune, or lunette, where most archaeological material has been found
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.
[citation needed] A small section of the region is protected by the Mungo National Park. The World Heritage status of the region was created and negotiated in 1981. [ 1 ] The site was gazetted on the Australian National Heritage List on 21 May 2007 [ 2 ] under the Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1), 2003 (Cth). [ 3 ]
The seven footprints, found amidst a clutter of hundreds of prehistoric animal prints, are estimated to be 115,000 years old. Many fossil and artifact windfalls have come from situations like this ...
Mungo National Park is a protected national park that is located in south-western New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The 110,967-hectare (274,210-acre) national park is situated approximately 875 kilometres (544 mi) west of Sydney in the Balranald Shire. Mungo National Park is the traditional meeting place of the Muthi Muthi, Nyiampaar and ...
This essay by Mike Flanagan on his favorite horror movie is one of several contributed as part of Variety’s 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time package. When I find myself talking to someone ...
Herb Baumeister’s macabre double life began to unravel in 1994 when his 13-year-old son found a human skull and a pile of bones in the woods of Fox Hollow Farm, his $1 million estate in ...