Traditional owners say the return of the remains of the historic Mungo Man, who was removed by scientists from his resting place more than 40 years ago, will provide closure and is a step toward reconciliation.
More than four decades ago anthropologists removed the ancient skeleton of an Aboriginal man, the discovery of which rewrote Australian history.
Now he has been returned home to his descendants, travelling for days in a hearse from Canberra.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-17/mungo-man-returned-to-ancestral-home/9159840
Can Australia's mordern Indiginous ppl really lay claim to him as an ancestor though?
An article from ABC science in 2001 says the following:
"In a technical tour de force, a team led by Thorne has extracted and analysed parts of a single gene from Mungo Man. More stunning still, the researchers claim that what they discovered is that the man's DNA is unlike anything they have ever seen. While Mungo Man was undoubtedly fully modern anatomically, he came from a genetic lineage that is now extinct."
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2001/01/01/2813404.htm
So if his lineage is now extinct, how can today's aborigines be his descendants?