Burial of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady can continue, court rules A legal challenge to the reburial of the oldest human remains found in this country has been dismissed.

Burial of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady can continue, court rules
#AustralianArchaeology #MungoMan

Reburials underway amid court challenge over thousands-year-old skeletons The discovery of these skeletal remains rewrote Australia's history books. Decades later, they're at the centre of a court battle.

The complex history of returning Mungo Man and Australia's oldest skeletons to country - ABC News www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03... #Australia #indigenous #archeology #mungoman #aboriginal #history

A 42,000-Year-Old Man Finally Goes Home At long last, the remains of Mungo Man are at rest after ...

In a 2019 @SmithsonianMag reportage, @TonyPerrottet unrolled this complex story surrounding the discovery and return of #MungoMan (with photographs by David Maurice Smith):

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mungo-man-finall...

(CW: Images of Aboriginal...

Lake Mungo 3

The #LakeMungo 3 remains (so-called #MungoMan) were originally discovered in February 1974.

The body, sprinkled with red #ochre, had been laid out on its back with knees bent and hands at the groin:

https://www.peterbrown-palaeoanthropology.net/LM3.html

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Mungo Man: 42,000-year-old Aboriginal remains to be reburied The remains of 108 Aboriginal people will be reburied in ...

"The remains of 108 #Aboriginal people [including so-called #MungoMan, famously discovered in 1974] who died about 42,000 years ago will be #reburied in outback #Australia, years after they were first dug up without permission."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-61006118 via...

Mungo Man headed for final resting place, four decades an... Remains of the first known Australian handed back to trad...

#Australia's 40,000 year-old #MungoMan is going home.

www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/nov/... via @guardian

The 42,000-year-old man who rewrote history can finally r... After years of negotiations, the man's bones have been ha...

"#MungoMan: 42,000 y/o bones returned to #Aboriginal tribes for burial"
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/m... by @kathymarksoz for @Independent