Mungo National Park, in outback NSW, is a remote and starkly beautiful World Heritage landscape where the world’s oldest ritual cremation site was discovered. Part of the Willandra Lake Region World Heritage Area, the park is comprised of a chain of ancient dried-up lakebeds and sand dunes. Besides its striking beauty, it's one of the world’s most significant national parks with important archaeological treasures found there including evidence of human occupation dating back 60,000 years, fossilised giant marsupials and the largest collection of fossilised human footprints. The estimated 40,000-year-old cremated remains of Mungo Lady were uncovered in 1968, making it the oldest site of ritual cremation in the world. In 1974 a skeleton, also estimated at around 40,000 years old, was discovered and called Mungo Man.
Unesco: Willandra Lakes Region
Many thanks Marnie
Date: Oct 21
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