Pay close attention to the Kids learning space pages above, then see how many answers you can get right! Start the Lake Mungo online exercise. Duration: Mungo archaeology on the Mungo National Park website. Mungo timeline on the Mungo National Park website. John Mulvaney collection on our Collection Explorer website. Evidence of first peoples on our Defining Moments website. Aboriginal languages on the Creative Spirits website. The National Museum of Australia acknowledges First Australians and recognises their continuous connection to country, community and culture.
Lake Mungo Lake Mungo for kids. A scene from Lake Mungo, dry for more than 10, years, in Photo: Deborah Frederick Lake Mungo was filled with water about , years ago, when a river now known as the Lachlan flowed through the Willandra Lakes region, draining water from the Great Dividing Range.
Photo: Papphase, Wikimedia Commons Thousands of years ago, when the lakes of the Willandra region were full, winds from the west blew sand from the shore, forming sand dunes along the eastern edges of the lakes.
Office of Environment and Heritage New South Wales Middens are the remains of ancient meals and provide evidence of people living at Lake Mungo thousands of years ago. Photo: Graysilver, Wikimedia Commons The remains of freshwater animals including crayfish and the golden perch have been found in middens at Lake Mungo. Photo: Michael Amendolia Language, creativity and culture flourished after people arrived in Australia. Did you know?
Nobody knows for certain when people first arrived in Australia. According to Aboriginal tradition, they were always here. Scientists accept people arrived more than 50, years ago by making a sea crossing, since water has always separated Australia from Asia. Archaeology Footsteps in time Lake Mungo is home to the earliest modern human remains found in Australia, and possibly the world. A 20,year-old footprint from the ancient shore of Lake Mungo.
Photo: Michael Amendolia A group of people left footprints in the clay along the edge of Lake Mungo in the last ice age. National Museum of Australia Returning ancestral remains to their country is important for local Aboriginal communities.
Animals Australian megafauna When people first arrived in Australia, they found unique plants and animals. Photo: Alan, Wikimedia Commons These predatory reptiles usually live on land, however, some are very good climbers and others are expert swimmers and divers. Take the quiz. Do the exercise. Watch the videos Discover what makes Lake Mungo one of Australia's most significant sites.
Secrets of Lake Mungo Additional resources. More resources Aligned resources. Downloads Before Time overview Pdf 29kb Word 90kb. Explore The Site Themes. Behind The Scenes. Stills Gallery. Our place - Teacher's forum. Over one hundred worked stone tools and about the same number of unworked debitage debris from stone working were found in a surface and subsurface deposit. Most of the stone was locally available silcrete, and the tools were a variety of scrapers.
Animal bone from the hearths included a variety of mammals likely wallaby, kangaroo, and wombat , bird, fish almost all golden perch, Plectorplites ambiguus , shellfish almost all Velesunio ambiguus , and emu eggshell. Three tools and a possible fourth made from mussel shells found at Lake Mungo exhibited polish, deliberate notching, chipping, exfoliation of the shell layer at the working edge, and edge rounding.
The use of mussel shells has been documented in several historic and prehistoric groups in Australia, for scraping hides and processing plant material and animal meat.
Two of the shells were recovered from a level dated between 30, and 40, years ago; a third was from 40, to 55, years ago. The continuing controversy about Lake Mungo concerns the dates of the human interments, figures which vary greatly depending on which method the scholar uses, and whether the date is directly on the bones of the skeletons themselves or on the soils in which the skeletons were interred.
It is very difficult for those of us not involved in the discussion to say which is the most convincing argument; for various reasons, direct dating has not been the panacea that it often is in other contexts.
The underlying issue is the globally-recognized difficulty with dating dune wind-lain deposits and the fact that the organic materials of the site lie at the outer edge of usable radiocarbon dating. Study of the geological stratigraphy of the dunes identified the presence of an island in Lake Mungo that was used by humans at the time of the Last Glacial Maximum.
That means that aboriginal occupants of Australia likely still used watercraft to navigate coastal regions, a skill they used to colonize Australia's Sahul some 60, years ago. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Lake Mungo was the second largest. Around this time humans arrived.
Around this time the Tasmania tigers in the area became extinct. The boundary fences were built the following year. Bilbies, bettongs and hairy-nosed wombats in the area were driven to extinction and the lunette began to erode dramatically. Mungo Shearers' Quarters, beside the Visitor Centre, tel: 03 or Mungo Lodge, Arumpo Road, just outside the entrance to the park, tel: or 03 It has a guidebook which can be downloaded to your phone or computer.
Ask in Balranald. I always go via Mildura because the road is sealed all the way it is km and takes over 5 and half hours. There is an unsealed, and more direct, way north from Balranald starting on the Ivanhoe Road which is only km but it does take nearly five hours. Yes, Lake Mungo is an amazing place.
Taking a guided tour is a good idea. Would my 4cylinder Toyota Yaris make it from Mildura to Mungo, or are the unskilled road to rough for a small car? Fay, I left a msg re taking a tour of Lake Mungo. Glenda Daly, Mobile Apologies for not returning yr call — thought it was a telemarketer and blocked yr number. You are now in my address book or email me. Wish to tour next week. I drive up from Bendigo. People were living on the shores.
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