Submitted by Paul Daley on
Their discovery proved millennia of continuous Indigenous existence. Now time is running out for those who want to stop them being buried again
It might have seemed relatively uncomplicated half a century ago to take the ancient remains of Mungo Lady and Mungo Man from the dry bed of the Willandra Lakes in New South Wales.
Nobody stood in the way when scientists brought the bones to the Australian National University where research on them would reveal that modern Indigenous people had been continuously inhabiting this part of Australia for at least 42,000 years.
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