Mike MORWOOD

Position:  Professor           
Room:  41.264
Phone No:  +61 2 4221 3189
Email:  mikem@uow.edu.au

Research Interests

• Archaeology of Southeast Asia and Australia
• Early hominin evolution and dispersals
• Origins of modern humans
• Rock art
• Southeast Asian biogeography
• Ethnoarchaeology

Representative Publications

Monographs

Morwood, M.J. 2002 Visions from the past; the archaeology of Australian Aboriginal art. Allen and Unwin, Sydney; and the Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington, D.C.

Metcalf, J. Smith, I. Davidson and M.J. Morwood (eds) 2001 Faunal and floral migrations and evolution in SE Asia-Australasia. Swets and Zeitlinger, The Netherlands

Morwood, M.J. and P. van Oosterzee 2007 The discovery of the Hobbit: the scientific breakthrough that changed the face of human history. Random House, Sydney.

Morwood, M.J. & Jungers, W.L. (Guest editors) 2009. Paleoanthropological Research at Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia. Journal of Human Evolution (Special Issue) 57(5) November 2009.

Morwood, M.J. and P. van Oosterzee 2009 The discovery of the Hobbit: the scientific breakthrough that changed the face of human history. (Revised Japanese edition) NHK Books, Tokyo.

Journal papers

Morwood, M.J., R.P. Soejono, R.G. Roberts, T. Sutikna, C.S.M. Turney, K.E. Westaway, W.J. Rink, J-x. Zhao, G.D. van den Bergh, Rokus Awe Due, D.R. Hobbs, M.W. Moore, M.I. Bird & L.K. Fifield  2004 Archaeology and age of Homo floresiensis, a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia. Nature 431: 1087-1091.

Morwood, M.J., P. Brown, T. Sutikna, Jatmiko, E. Wahyu Saptomo, K.E. Westaway, R.G. Roberts, Rokus Awe Due, T. Maeda, S. Wasisto & T. Djubiantono 2005 Further evidence for small-bodied hominins from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia.. Nature 437: 1012-1017.

Falk, D., Charles Hildebolt, Kirk Smith, M. J. Morwood, Thomas Sutikna, Jatmiko, E. Wayhu Saptomo, Fred Prior 2009. LB1’s virtual endocast, microcephaly, and hominin brain Evolution. Journal of Human Evolution 57(5): 597-607.

Hochnell, S.A., P.J. Piper, G, D van den Bergh, R. Awe Due, M.J. Morwood and I. Kurniawan 2009. Dragon’s Paradise Lost: palaeobiogeography, evolution and extinction of the largest-ever terrestrial lizards (Varanidae). PLoS ONE 4(9): e7241. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007242 (Zoological Society of London, UK).

Jungers, W.L., S.G., Larson, W. Harcourt-Smith, M. J. Morwood, T. Sutikna. 2008. Description of the lower limb skeleton of Homo floresiensis. Journal of Human Evolution 57(5): 538-554

Larson, S.G., W. L. Jungers, W. Harcourt-Smith, M J. Morwood, T. Sutikna. 2008. Description of the upper limb skeleton of Homo floresiensis. Journal of Human Evolution 57(5): 555-570.

Moore, M.W., T. Sutikna, M.J. Morwood and A. Brumm 2009. Continuities in Stone Flaking Technology, Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia. Journal of Human Evolution 57(5): 503-526.

Morwood, M.J. T. Sutikna, E. W. Saptomo, Jatmiko, D.R. Hobbs, K.E. Westaway 2009. Preface: research at Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia. Journal of Human Evolution 57(5): 437-449.

Morwood, M.J. & W.L. Jungers 2009. Conclusions: implications of the Liang Bua finds for hominin evolution and biogeography. Journal of Human Evolution 57(5): 640-650.

Westaway, K.E., Roberts, R.G., Sutikna, T., Morwood, M.J, Zhao, J.-x, Chivas, A.R. and Gagan, M.K. 2009. The evolving landscape and climate of western Flores: an environmental context for the archaeological site of Liang Bua. Journal of Human Evolution 57(5): 450-464.

Westaway, K.E., Sutikna, T., Saptomo, W.E, Jatmiko, Morwood, M.J, Roberts, R.G., Hobbs, D.R. 2009. Reconstructing the geomorphic history of Liang Bua: a stratigraphic interpretation of the occupational environment. Journal of Human Evolution 57(5): 465-483.

Searchable Publications

Suggested Topics for Future

Biogeography, palaeontology and archaeology of Southeast Asia

Abbreviated CV

2007 Professor in Archaeology at the University of Wollongong –

2004-2007 Professor in Archaeology at the University of New England –

1982-2004 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate-Professor at the University of New England – Australian Archaeology, Southeast Asian and Pacific Archaeology, Rock Art, Archaeological Field Methods, Archaeological Lab Methods

1980-1982     Field and Research Archaeologist with Queensland State Archaeology Branch, DAIA.

1976-1979 PhD at the Australian National University. Thesis topic: “Art and stone: towards a prehistory of central-western Queensland.”

1974-1976 Regional Archaeologist with Queensland State Archaeology Branch, DAIA, 1974-6

1973 MA  in archaeology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand

1972 BA  in archaeology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand