• DOI:10.1038/nature01383
Corpus ID: 4365526

New ages for human occupation and climatic change at Lake Mungo, Australia

@article{Bowler2003NewAF,
  title={New ages for human occupation and climatic change at Lake Mungo, Australia},
  author={J. Bowler and H. Johnston and J. Olley and J. Prescott and R. Roberts and Wilfred Shawcross and N. Spooner},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2003},
  volume={421},
  pages={837-840}
}

J. Bowler, H. Johnston, +4 authors N. Spooner

Published 2003

Biology, Medicine

Nature

Australia's oldest human remains, found at Lake Mungo, include the world's oldest ritual ochre burial (Mungo III) and the first recorded cremation (Mungo I). Until now, the importance of these finds has been constrained by limited chronologies and palaeoenvironmental information. Mungo III, the source of the world's oldest human mitochondrial DNA, has been variously estimated at 30 thousand years (kyr) old, 42–45 kyr old and 62 ± 6 kyr old, while radiocarbon estimates placed the Mungo I… CONTINUE READING

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