Five decades ago, when geologist Jim Bowler brushed sand away from the dome of an ancient human cranium, it changed the way we thought about Australia's past.
Fifty years ago, Australia's history was rewritten by a chance discovery in Far West New South Wales.
The cranium, when Mr Bowler excavated it together with anthropologist Alan Thorne, revealed the almost complete skeleton of an adult male. "There's no ochre within well over 100 kilometres … that ochre had to be prepared in advance, brought in, traded maybe. "My nan and … the elders that followed, always talked about how Mungo Man and Mungo Lady came back for a reason," Mr Kelly says.
"The reburial took place after extensive community consultation and was consistent with a resolution made by the elected Willandra Lakes Region World Heritage Aboriginal Advisory Group to rebury the ancestral remains."The revelation that Aboriginal people had been in Australia for more than 40,000 years was not news to Aboriginal people.
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