The NSW environment department has launched an investigation after the remains of some the earliest modern humans discovered in Australia were removed from storage and reburied.
The NSW environment department has launched an investigation after the remains of some of the earliest modern humans discovered in Australia were removed from storage on Tuesday, over the objections of traditional owners, and reburied secretly in unknown graves.
The group’s chair, Patsy Winch, was contacted for comment but said she was unable to make any statements on the matter.Credit:The second group – the Mutthi Mutthi, Barkindji/Paakantji and Ngiyampaa traditional owners from the Three Tribal Traditional Groups – wants the remains preserved in a “keeping place” where scientists can apply to study them using non-intrusive measures.
But on Tuesday the remains were removed from a secure vault in the Mungo National Park Visitor Centre, where they were under the supervision of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. They were buried in secret locations, in what the TTTG group described as “clear defiance” of the attempted stay proceedings.In a statement late yesterday, the department said: “An investigation is under way into the removal of some remains from where they were being stored.
But later that day, Mutthi Mutthi member Jason Kelly, a spokesperson for the applicant group, said they had become aware that the remains of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady had been removed from a locked park visitor centre and reburied. The discovery of the remains of Mungo Lady and Mungo Man rewrote Australian history, giving evidence of continuous Aboriginal existence.
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