Lake Mungo

For the film, see Lake Mungo (film).

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.

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. Many important archaeological findings have been made at the lake, most significantly the discovery of the remains of Mungo Man, the oldest human remains found in Australia,[2] Mungo Woman, the oldest human remains in the world to be ritually cremated and as the location of the Lake Mungo geomagnetic excursion, the first convincing evidence that Geomagnetic excursions are a geomagnetic phenomenon rather than sedimentological.[3]

  1. ^ "Distance calculator Sydney to Lake Mungo". Geoscience Australia. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2008.
  2. ^ New age for Mungo Man, new human history : Media Releases : News : The University of Melbourne Archived 2005-10-24 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Jacobs, J.A. (1994). Reversals of the Earth's Magnetic Field. pp. 94–96: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521450720.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)