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What Does Lake Mungo Tell Us About the World's Oldest Cremation? - The Deep Past and Living Custodianship of Lake Mungo | Sleepy Facts About History
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At Lake Mungo in western New South Wales, a dry lakebed bordered by crescent-shaped dunes preserves some of the oldest known evidence of complex human ritual in the world. The remains known as Mungo Lady and Mungo Man reveal that tens of thousands of years ago, people in this landscape practiced both cremation and burial with red ochre. The same wind that scatters sand across the ancient surface also exposes new artifacts, creating a dynamic environment where the deep past is continuously…
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