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.

    Mungo man’s skeleton is 40 thousand years old.

  2. In which region was Mungo Man’s skeleton discovered? Add a map of the country. Mungo man was Discovered in Australia’s mungo lakes. 
  3. How did geologist Jim Bowler find the skeleton? He found the skeleton bones while he was in a research trip in 1974.
  4. Why were the traditional Aboriginal owners of the Willandra Lakes angry? They were angry because  Jim Bowler took the Mungo skeleton away from the aboriginals.

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