Traditional owners want Mungo home ABORIGINAL custodians of the Willandra Lakes in far southwestern NSW are demanding that the 40,000-year-old skeletal remains of their ancestor Mungo Man be brought home for burial. Mungo Man -- whose discovery in the dry bed of Lake Mungo in 1974 transformed scientific understanding of the origins of modern man -- is stored at the Australian National University in conditions that have deeply offended traditional owners, who have been battling for years to bring him home.