Lake Mungo remains that LM3 can not be older than 50,000 years BP. According to anthropologist Peter Brown, with the absence of the original deposit that once lay above the burial, a minimum age for the burial has not been established, only a possible maximum. In 2003, Professor Bowler led a project bringing together a multi-disciplinary team of Australian expert groups (comprising four Australian universities, the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service and the CSIRO, as well as including descendants of the Mungo people) to collaborate on a final determination of the skeleton's age. They reached a consensus that LM3 is about 40,000
Mungo Park Jr. Jr. learned golf from childhood. Park Sr. won three more Open Championships. His uncle also Mungo Park Sr, younger brother of Willie Park Sr., also won the Open in 1874. His brother Willie Park Jr was also an Open champion (1887 and 1889) At age 19, in 1897, he went to New York, sailing on the RMS "Teutonic", to open a branch of his brother's business but this only lasted one, or at most two, years as Mungo was advertising for a professional's position for 1898. During his time in New York, he laid out the nine hole Dutchess Golf