Mungo Man and Mungo Lady were discovered in 1969 and one of the world’s oldest known cremations.Mungo Man, discovered in 1974, was an early Aboriginal Australian human inhabitant of the continent, who is believed to have lived between 40,000 and 68,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene epoch.

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• http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0224_030224_mungoman_2.html
• http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/25/mungo-man-physical-reminder-need-for-indigenous-recognition
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mungo_remains
• http://www.techtimes.com/articles/163490/20160607/dna-sequencing-proves-aboriginal-people-as-australians.htm

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