Smithsonian Magazine – September 2019
BY TONY PERROTTET PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID MAURICE SMITH The mysterious skeleton emerged from Lake Mungo, a dry lakebed in Australia ...
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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JIM BO WL EN ;M AP :^ G UI LB ER T^ G AT ES opposition. But Mungo Man was intact, a unique piece of prehistoric evidence. We dro ...
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 ...
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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 ...
54 SMITHSONIAN.COM | September 2019 LIN DA H AL L^ L IBR AR Y^ O F^ S CI EN CE ,^ E NG INE ER IN G^ &^ T EC HN OL OG Y;^ AL ...
RECREATED GRAPHIC: ERITREA DORCELY; SOURCES: JAMES O’DONOGHUE; NASA’S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER / DAVID LADD Giovanni Cas- sin ...
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