Mungo Lady and Mungo Man

Controversies in Australian Prehistory A Fifty thousand years ago, a lush landscape greeted the first Australians moving towards the south-east of the continent. Temperatures were cooler than now. Megafauna - giant prehistoric animals such as marsupial lions and the rhinoceros-sized diprotodon - were abundant. Freshwater lakes in areas of western New South Wales (NSW) were brimming with fish. But change was coming. By 40,000 years ago, water levels had started to drop. B A st...