19:58, 18-Nov-2017
Aboriginal Remains: Skeleton of early Australian finally reburied
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The 40,000-year-old remains of an Aboriginal man were returned to his ancestral homeland. The remains prompted a drastic rewrite of Australian history.
The skeleton arrived at Lake Mungo in New South Wales, and was honored with a traditional ceremony. The discovery of the so-called "Mungo Man" in 1974 doubled the known length of human presence on the continent from 20,000 to at least 42 thousand years. But its removal to Canberra for study had angered the indigenous community there.