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 __Mungo Lady __ The Mungo Lady (also known as Mungo I) is one of the world's oldest cremations discovered at Lake Mungo, New South Wales, Australia in 1969. The finding implies complicated burial ritual in the early human societies, having being burnt, cremated and burnt again. The reconstruction of her skull and her description is mainly done by Alan Thorne at the Australian National University. A total of 600 bone chips were found, each no larger than a thumbnail. Thorne washed each carefully with acetic acid, sealed them in a preservative and pieced them together in a recognisable skeleton. Most of the bone pieces were from the skull, and others were pieces of the arm and pelvis. Only about half of the skull was found, and comparing it to that of a modern human skull, it was determined that there was a close relation between the modern human and mungo lady. Other pieces of bone that were found were from the arm and the pelvis, but there wasn't enough bone chips to construct these body parts.    __Mungo Man __ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">At burial, the body has been laid on its right side, knees bent, and arms tucked between its legs in a normal sleeping position and sprinkled with red ochre. The sprinkling of the ochre is believed to be a ritual and Mungo Man is the oldest known sample in the world of such a ritual. Female skeletons were usually more delicate than those of a male, so when LM3, an equally delicate male counterpart was found, the uniqueness of the LM1's bones were quashed. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">LM3 had his lower two canine teeth missing, which scientists believe are because of a ritual where they were knocked out. His molar teeth are worn and scratched, possibly from eating a gritty diet of stripping long leaves of water reeds with his teeth to make twine. The bones of mungo man showed that he may have been nearly 196cm in height and around 50 when he died. Also, his bones, especially his right elbow showed signs that it was completely worn and some sections have completely broken away. This suggested that he may have suffered from severe arthritis that he would not be able o fully exted his arm or turn his hand properly. This then led scientists to believe he was a hunter-gatherer, as such wear and tear is typical of people who have used a woomera or thrown spears for many years.

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