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Sea, Willandra Lakes, Earth, Wetter, Dunes, Ridges, South East Asia, Settlement, Lunette, Salty, Small Mammals, Footprints, Vegetation, Ice Age, Extinct, National Park

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Earth movements create the large, low-lying Murray Basin, where the __________ lie today

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The ______ floods the Murray Basin from the south and covers the area where Willandra Lakes form later.

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The coastline nears its modern position, but _____ movements block the ancestral Murray-Darling River near its mouth, causing a huge lake (Lake Bungunnia) to back up into the Murray Basin.
The large lake suggests a _______ climate than today.

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The Lake Bungunnia barrier is breached and the lake drains.
Active ______ form in central Australia and the mallee region of the western Murray Basin.

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By 150,000 years ago the Willandra Lakes had formed and water filled the basins.
_______ begin forming, built up from sand blown off wave-formed beaches.

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Ice sheets expand across cooler parts of the globe, causing a fall in sea level.
The first human arrivals including the Paakantji people's ancestors reach Australia across the sea gap from _______, and spread across the continent. The environment is forgiving and bountiful.

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The first evidence of the Paakantji people's ______ of Mungo Lake appear.

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Mungo Lady and Mungo Man are buried in the Mungo _____.

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Water levels in Willandra Lakes fall and the lakes become ______.
Clay is blown over older sand lunettes. The Upper Mungo layer is deposited on the Mungo lunette.
The Paakantji People occupy the shores of the lakes, hunting, fishing and burying their dead.

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The climate fluctuates for 18,000 years with great droughts and wet seasons emptying and filling the lakes.
The Paakantji people leave abundant evidence, including the remains of fish, shellfish and ___________. They may feast on mass fish deaths in the drying lakes.

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The world grows much colder and vegetation around the lake suffers greatly. The lakes begin to dry out, never to refill again. The Paakantji people leave some evidence, including _______ on a moist claypan. People probably move northwards along the lakes, following the fish and shellfish as the water retreats and food resources diminish under harsh conditions in the wider landscape.

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The world begins to thaw again, there is limited evidence of the Paakantji people from this era as _______ begins to recover to similar levels as today.

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The _______ is over, and the stable semi-arid environment of today is dominant. The Paakantki people nurture the land and honour their ancestors.

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Europeans arrive in the area during the 1840's bringing herdables and other introduced species. The land is devastated by overgrazing, land clearing and drought- many species become _______. The Paakantji people are dispossessed from their traditional lands of the last 45,000 years and are either killed or put to work in the pastoral industry.  It wasnt until 1979 that the ________ was established and the traditional owners of the land were recognised and allowed to again settle in their ancestral home.