Ancestral Remains returned to traditional owners »

We are so grateful he is going to be coming home. He's done his job. It is time for him to go home and rest now. Historic Ancestral Remains discovered at Lake Mungo in the 1960s and early 1970s have been returned to elders from the Willandra Lakes area of Western New South Wales in the first step of their journey home. The remains, including those known as Mungo Man, were handed to elders of the Mutthi Mutthi, Ngiyampaa and Paakantji/Barkandji people during a formal ceremony at The Australian National University (ANU). "ANU has been custodian of the remains for four decades, and has treated them with great care and respect. It is now time for them to be returned to the care of their Indigenous descendants," said ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young AO.