Mungo National Park, New South Wales
Forty years ago the remains of a man were found at Lake Mungo in NSW. This discovery would forever change our understanding of the Aboriginal history of Australia.
In geological layers dated as far back as 50,000 years, there are stone tools and hearths, shellfish middens and butchered animal bones.
The bones of both Mungo Lady and Mungo Man, as well as the fragmentary remains of as many as 100 other people found at Willandra, made their way into ANU collections in Canberra during the 1970s and ’80s. The NSW State Government purchased Mungo station and turned it into a national park in 1979 (funds from Australian Geographic’s founder Dick Smith helped establish the visitors centre, which includes a small museum). Gazetting of the larger WHA followed in 1981.
THE WILLANDRA LAKES Region World Heritage Area covers 2400sq.km of semi-arid saltbush plains, dunes and sparse woodlands in the Murray Basin of south-western NSW. It consists of 19 dry relict lakes (see map, overleaf) that were once filled with glacial meltwater flowing east along the Willandra Creek from the Great Dividing Range.
These Pleistocene-era lakes, which were full from about 50,000 years ago, vary in size from 6 to 350sq.km; all have crescent-moon-shaped dunes called lunettes on their eastern sides, formed by prevailing winds. Mungo NP itself covers about 70 per cent of Lake Mungo, including the striking Walls of China, which are part of the lake’s 26km-long lunette.
“Some of the very earliest modern human remains in the world are here at Mungo,” says Harvey Johnston, a NSW Office of Environment and Heritage archaeologist, who’s been involved with Willandra since the late 1980s. “You have this record of human occupation going back 40,000 years and burials and ceremonies associated with that: cremations, burials with ochre, multiple individuals and burials with unusual features.” SUBSCRIBE: The official channel of Australian Geographic magazine.
We bring you the best Australian nature, science, people and adventure videos. Subscribe to the AusGeo channel for regular videos showcasing the people, places and wildlife that makes Australia so great. We want to hear from you too. Tell us what you want to see, or ask us questions.
Subscribe |
Australian Geographic |
Facebook |
Twitter |
Instagram |
Google+ |
Get the mag |
Join the conversation: #AUSGEO
How to Find GOLD NUGGETS with a Metal Detector! (Gold Bug II)
In this video I found gold nuggets with a metal detector (goldbug II) while demonstrating how to use one! It was good spot for it because I have found lots of gold nuggets here before, and I was using the Fisher Gold Bug II metal detector which I know fairly well! Please SUBSCRIBE to watch the FREE adventures!!
FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM & FACEBOOK
Instagram:
Facebook:
Equipment I use
Metal Detector In This Video:
Gold Monster 1000 Metal Detector:
SDC 2300 Metal Detector:
Highbanker:
Garret Super Sluice Gold Pan:
Hand Sucker Tube:
I Found INCREDIBLE Gold While Mining Underwater!!
Hidden Hold Found While Highbanking For Gold!
I Found a BIG GOLD NUGGET on Bedrock!!
Finding GREAT Gold in the Bedrock!
My Record SMASHING Gold Nugget!!
Finding Gold in a Deep Crevice!
Hand Dredging the Bedrock Crevices!
Picking Gold of Ancient Bedrock!
Sniping for River Gold & Treasures!
Sniping Gold in High Waters!
Scuba Diving for Gold in the River!
Sniping for Gold in a River!
Hand Dredging Gold from Perfect Crevices!
Metal Detecting Gold with your Mouth!
Winter Gold with Twin Sister!
GOLD Dredging Over The Border!
An Awesome GOLD Hunting Adventure!
I Found GOLD under Waterfall!
The Gold is in the Bedrock!
GOLD Record Under BIG Rock!
Questions & Ideas?
Inquires: pioneerpauly@gmail.com
(may be late to respond)
Music:
Scandinavianz - Wonderland (instrumental) by Scandinavianz Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Music promoted by Audio Library
Tonto Artist: Silent Partner Genre: Country & Folk Mood: Romantic Download:
#FindingGold #MetalDetecting #GoldNuggets