Smithsonian Magazine - 10.2019

HE WALKED THE EARTH 42,000 YEARS AGO. NOW HIS REMAINS ARE AT REST AFTER AN AGONIZING CLASH BETWEEN MODERN SCIENCE AND ANCIENT SP ...

40 SMITHSONIAN.COM | September 2019 Mungo Man’s casket was made from an 8,000-year-old red gum. Aborig- inal people use the sap ...

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September 2019 | SMITHSONIAN.COM 43 ren Clark, an elder from the Paakantyi tribal group, surveyed the bare asphalt expanse durin ...

broad-rimmed hats nursing their beers at the bar nod amiably to the technicolor blur of buffed men stream- ing by in sparkly seq ...

September 2019 | SMITHSONIAN.COM 45 ney in 1788. It was a cataclysm for Australia’s first in- habitants. Within a few short deca ...

The 275,000- acre Mungo National Park is home to large numbers of kangaroos, emus and pink cockatoos. inside his pickup truck, w ...

September 2019 | SMITHSONIAN.COM 47 tance—the nearest source was over 130 miles away—and had been either painted onto the body o ...

when the Australian government rec- ommended that repatriations be “un- conditional.” Unlike in the U.S., where federal laws gov ...

September 2019 | SMITHSONIAN.COM 49 ing to the south, where Mungo Man and Mungo Lady had both emerged from the sand, I tried to ...

SATURN’S ...

by SShhhhaaauuuunn RRaavvvii vv SURPRISE THE PLANET’S DISTINCTIVE RINGS MAY BE GONE IN A COSMIC BLINK OF AN EYE ...

Saturn was surrounded by “a thin, fl at ring, no- where touching, and inclined to the ecliptic.” The Italian-French astronomer G ...

September 2019 | SMITHSONIAN.COM 53 Not just a ring- master, James O’Donoghue also studies Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and the eff ...

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RECREATED GRAPHIC: ERITREA DORCELY; SOURCES: JAMES O’DONOGHUE; NASA’S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER / DAVID LADD Giovanni Cas- sin ...

NEW TREASURES OF P O M P E I I THE FROM GORGEOUS ARTWORKS TO GRIMACING CORPSES, ...

PHOTOGRAPHS BY Chiara Goia -- BY Franz Lidz -- -- In a 21st-century tribute to antiquity, bronze sculptures by the late Igor Mit ...

F YOU STAND INSIDE THE RU- INS OF POMPEII AND LISTEN VERY, VERY HARD, YOU CAN ALMOST HEAR THE CREAK- ING OF CART WHEELS, THE TUM ...