Lunettes of Mungo National Park 3 #1 Photograph by Lexa Harpell

Lunettes of Mungo National Park 3 #1

by Lexa Harpell

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Title

Lunettes of Mungo National Park 3 #1

Artist

Lexa Harpell

Medium

Photograph - Photographs

Description

Lunettes of Mungo National Park 3 by Lexa Harpell.

These lunettes were formed by thousands of years of sandstorms and winds across the hardened clay of the dry lake beds - known as the 'Walls of China' in Mingo NP is approx 33kms long in Outback New South Wales, Australia.

I get to do THIS!
Explore, witness and learn about this ancient, diverse land of my home, Australia.

This trip was 400kms of corrugated dirt road in total, where my top speed was just 30kms p/hr in my campervan.
The last two hours I found myself driving through a heavy dust/sand storm adding to the excitement and slowness of the journey.
My destination was to Mungo National Park in the 240,000 ha UNESCO World Heritage site of the Willandra Lakes Region *Ref: 167* - noted for it's natual plus cultural signficance to the world.

It's not a 'touristy' destination, only for those who want to truly witness our land. So I was glad there were only a handful of people there on my visit.

A rich archaeological wonderland that looks more like a lunar landscape of fascinating lunettes, pinkish pastel sandhills and a precious gift into the past of our first people.

The region is a chain of 17 ancient dried up lake beds, containing the recently discovered preserved remains of 'Mungo Man' covered in red ochre, which symbolises the blood of ancestral beings - and the cremation remains of 'Mungo Lady' - both estimated to be about 40,000 years old.

Also in this region, a series of definite footprints once formed in a thick clay and covered in the dry sands (maybe days later) of running hunters, family, child estimated to be 20,000 years old and giant marsupial fossils.

Stone tools, fireplaces, fish bones, midens, from the past life of our Indegenous people in this region - who are the longest living culture in the world.

*The long preservation is due to the low humidity and carbonite in the sands.
**Both remains of Mungo Man & Mungo Lady have been respectfully returned to the earth where they were found.
The footprints have been covered once again, but not before they made a concrete cast of the footprint area for people like me to 'step' into that past, to be amazed and wonder.