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Mungo Man

When you play the dating game it isn't what it seems
understanding technique you could be reading reams
think they got it cut and dried then they hit a snag
thought it done and dusted but it is not in the bag
the dry flat plain where once a lake presenting now a different sight
new South Wales Australia a semi arid desert blight
skeletal fragments, crushed and burnt suggest, perhaps a burial rite
find was tagged lake mungo one but more than this would come to light
interpreted as female and c14 dated
nineteen thousand years on bone and to this related
soft tissue test was older yet twenty five thou seven hundred stated
oldest human burial claim but it gets more complicated

chorus,
do mungo man fit mungo woman in their ages and their places in the dating game
will they ever reach a resolution, when the dating they been given is not the same
they can push back the past, they can change their mind participating in the dating game.

Testing done on nearby charcoal gave an age, being older yet
mungo woman lay just below this thus the dating must be reset
she was found in 69 but forward now year 74
mungo man find same sand bed assume same dating,that's for sure.
a man called bowler, another called Thorne unearth together, mungo find
but as the course of years fly by togetherness is less inclined
bowler used in 98 thermoluminesence test.
42 thousand year was read older yet he thought it best.
former c 14 date supposed correct and best obtained
set aside in favour of one with much more zeros gained
then it was in 99 Thorne and other scientists
comprehensive study making 62 thousand year insist
sampling done on bone and sand as other tastings were employed
mungo man gaining greater age but bowler thought it null and void
bowler would not toe the party line claiming complex lab results
must agree with former field work this agreement difficult.
dating game is so uncertain.   Not as sure as some suggest
they may argue on the detail but as you may have guessed.
any other doubt is simply unexpressed.