Guided Reading Week 5 – Mungo Man

1.
Mungo Man is the oldest skeleton ever found in Australia. How old is Mungo Man’s skeleton? Approximately…
a. 400 years old
b. 4 thousand years old
c. 40 thousand years old
d. The Mungo man is 42 thousand years old.
2.
In which region was Mungo Man’s skeleton discovered? …  Willandra Lake
Add a map of the country.
3.
How did geologist Jim Bowler find the skeleton?
Jim Bowler found the Mungo Man Skeleton when he was doing his research about it in 1974.
4.Why were the traditional Aboriginal owners of the Willandra Lakes angry?
To do all this research on Mungo Man, scientists took him away from where he was buried and kept him in a university lab.This made the traditional Aboriginal owners of the Willandra Lakes angry because nobody asked their permission.

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