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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 .
Lake Mungo is a 2008 Australian psychological horror film written and directed by Joel Anderson. Presented in the pseudo-documentary format with elements of found footage and docufiction , it is Anderson's only film.
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
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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.
Fossils from Lake Mungo, Australia, have been dated to about 42,000 years ago. [69] [70] Other fossils from a site called Madjedbebe have been dated to at least 65,000 years ago, [71] [72] though some researchers doubt this early estimate and date the Madjedbebe fossils at about 50,000 years ago at the oldest. [29] [30]
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.