Mike MORWOOD

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

Morwood, M.J. and D.R. Hobbs (eds) 1995. Quinkan prehistory: the archaeology of Aboriginal art in south-east Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Tempus 3, Anthropology Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane.

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., 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.

O'Sullivan, P., Morwood, M.J., F. Aziz, Suminto, Mangatas Situmorang, A. Raza and R. Maas 2001 Archeological implications of the geology and chronology of the Soa Basin, Flores, Indonesia Geology 29(7): 607-610.

Roberts, R.G., M.J. Morwood and K. Westaway 2005 Illuminating Indonesia’s prehistory: new archaeological and palaeoanthropological frontiers for luminescence dating. Asian Perspectives 44 (2), 293–319.

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