WHAT ARE THE MYSTERIES OF LAKE MUNGO? is the latest fascinating history mystery to be added to the Australian History Mysteries subscription website -- www.australianhistorymysteries.info/. It is a multimedia education resource for lower secondary students. It is designed to fulfil the Australian Curriculum History requirement that students explore the nature of the sources for ancient Australia and what they reveal about Australia's past in the ancient period, using the discovery of Mungo Lady and then Mungo Man as a case study. Students 'visit' the World Heritage Willandra Lakes site, of which Lake Mungo is part, through a 25-minute virtual visit film. They see both the environment, and the archaeological evidence that exists about life in that place in ancient times. They realise that the Lake Mungo of today is not the same as Lake Mungo in the past. And they are challenged to solve some of the mysteries of that past! They now use a variety of photocopiable worksheets to use evidence to work out their own answers to a series of questions or mysteries about what Lake Mungo was like 40 000 years ago, how people lived there in the past, how it became what it is today, and how we can we reach these conclusions.

本書は四万年前の古代オーストラリアの記憶を呼び覚ます、魂の冒険書です。単なる記録を超え、人類の営みと大地が刻んだ壮大なる時間の連なりを「解かれるべき謎」として提示する手法が鮮烈です。読者は痕跡を辿り、時空を超えた探偵として古代の息遣いを生々しく体感することになります。 特筆すべきは付属映像との共鳴です。映像が現在の景観と太古を視覚的に繋ぐ一方、テキストは証拠を読み解く深い思索の場を創出します。視覚の力と論理の深みが融合した時、失われた世界は圧倒的な実在感を持って現れるのです。これぞ、知的好奇心を極限まで刺激する至高の歴史体験と言えるでしょう。