Mungo Man

Painted with red ocher, Mungo Man is the oldest such ritually buried skeleton in the world.

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"The consensus was unanimous -- Mungo Man was buried about 42,000 years ago," says Bowler.

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Supporters of the idea that humans evolved simultaneously around the Old World pointed to Mungo Man as exhibit A that Homo sapiens did not originate exclusively in Africa.

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That's the conclusion of a team that dated sediments near the burial site of Mungo Man, a modern human skeleton first discovered in 1974 on the shore of Australia's ancient Lake Mungo.

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Bowler says the survey also revealed that a burial discovered nearby, the oldest known cremation, known as Mungo Lady, is roughly the same age as Mungo Man.

A Younger Mungo Man 2003

The age of Australia's Mungo Man, found eroding out of a sand dune, has been put at 42,000 years.

A Younger Mungo Man 2003

They felt that Thorne's talk of two types of prehistoric Australians undermined their claim to indigenity, and the publication of the remains of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady as illustrations to newspaper articles about Thorne's discoveries only made them angrier.

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How is it, Thorne asks, that the 'Kow people' have the same DNA as living humans, despite their archaic features, while Mungo Man has different DNA, despite his 'modern' appearance?

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His analysis of the remains of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady shows they were hypergracile - that is, exceptionally slight and fine-boned - individuals.

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The epic pretensions of this narrative are mocked by the charred and broken bones of Mungo Lady and the smooth, fully articulated skeleton of Mungo Man.

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