Lake Mungo Discoveries

Where is Lake Mungo?

• New South Wales
• South Australia
• Northern Territories

What important discoveries were made at Lake Mungo?

• A mummy
• A copper axe
• Footprints preserved in the soil
• Bones of humans

How was the Mungo Man found?

• Buried on his back
• cremated
• buried tossed away

Where is the Mungo Man now?

• In a museum
• Returned to country
• frozen to preserve
• Nobody knows

Where is Mungo Lady now?

• In a museum
• returned to country
• frozen to preserve
• no one knows

What did the Mungo Man and Mungo Lady prove?

• Humans had reached the Copper Age 30,000 years ago
• Humans lived here at least 30,000 years ago
• Humans had come to Australia 30,000 years ago
• The Out of Africa theory was incorrect

YOUR OPINION: Should Mungo Man/Lady be returned to Indigenous groups?

• yes
• all of the answers
• After we learn from the evidence
• They shouldn't have taken them in the first place

What region is the lake in?

• Kowandra lakes
• Northern Beaches
• Northern River
• Willandra Lakes

An archaeologist is a person who studies history through the...

• Reading sources and making a judgement
• Discovering remains through methods like excavation

A historian is a person who studies the past through...

• Reading sources and making a judgement
• Discovering remains through methods like excavation