Mike Morwood
New Zealand born Australian archaeologist
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Mike Morwood's Degrees
- PhD Archaeology Australian National University
- Bachelors Archaeology University of Auckland
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Professor Michael John Morwood was a New Zealand archaeologist best known for discovering Homo floresiensis. In 2012, he received the Rhys Jones Medal by the Australian Archaeological Association. Biography Morwood was born in Auckland and grew up in New Zealand. He was awarded his Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 1973, receiving his Masters in the following year. In 1972 the Auckland University Department of Anthropology awarded him the Anthropology Prize for academic excellence. He commenced further graduate studies in 1976 at the Australian National University. He was awarded his PhD in 1980. His dissertation was titled "Art and stone: towards a prehistory of central-western Queensland" .
Mike Morwood's Published Works
Published Works
- A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia (2004) (831)
- Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia (2004) (432)
- Pleistocene cave art from Sulawesi, Indonesia (2014) (405)
- Phylogeny and ancient DNA of Sus provides insights into neolithic expansion in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania (2007) (331)
- The Brain of LB1, Homo floresiensis (2005) (250)
- Revised stratigraphy and chronology for Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua in Indonesia (2016) (213)
- The Primitive Wrist of Homo floresiensis and Its Implications for Hominin Evolution (2007) (187)
- Luminescence dating of rock art and past environments using mud-wasp nests in northern Australia (1997) (164)
- An early modern human presence in Sumatra 73,000–63,000 years ago (2017) (161)
- The foot of Homo floresiensis (2009) (154)
- Faunal and Floral Migration and Evolution in SE Asia-Australasia (2001) (150)
- Visions from the Past: The Archaeology of Australian Aboriginal Art (2002) (148)
- The Liang Bua faunal remains: a 95k.yr. sequence from Flores, East Indonesia. (2009) (147)
- Hominins on Flores, Indonesia, by one million years ago (2010) (142)
- Early stone technology on Flores and its implications for Homo floresiensis (2006) (139)
- Age and biostratigraphic significance of the Punung Rainforest Fauna, East Java, Indonesia, and implications for Pongo and Homo. (2007) (138)
- Descriptions of the upper limb skeleton of Homo floresiensis. (2009) (125)
- Continuities in stone flaking technology at Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia. (2009) (115)
- Homofloresiensis-like fossils from the early Middle Pleistocene of Flores (2016) (112)
- Homo floresiensis and the evolution of the hominin shoulder. (2007) (111)
- Earliest hominin occupation of Sulawesi, Indonesia (2016) (110)
- Descriptions of the lower limb skeleton of Homo floresiensis. (2009) (100)
- Conclusions: implications of the Liang Bua excavations for hominin evolution and biogeography. (2009) (94)
- Dragon's Paradise Lost: Palaeobiogeography, Evolution and Extinction of the Largest-Ever Terrestrial Lizards (Varanidae) (2009) (88)
- LB1's virtual endocast, microcephaly, and hominin brain evolution. (2009) (86)
- Brain shape in human microcephalics and Homo floresiensis (2007) (85)
- Age and context of the oldest known hominin fossils from Flores (2016) (80)
- Craniofacial morphology of Homo floresiensis: description, taxonomic affinities, and evolutionary implication. (2011) (78)
- Archaeological and palaeontological research in central Flores, east Indonesia: results of fieldwork 1997–98 (1999) (76)
- The Archaeology of Social Complexity in South-east Queensland (1987) (73)
- The youngest stegodon remains in Southeast Asia from the Late Pleistocene archaeological site Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia (2008) (73)
- Last appearance of Homo erectus at Ngandong, Java, 117,000–108,000 years ago (2019) (70)
- Archaeology of the Central Queensland Highlands: The Stone Component (1981) (65)
- Climate, people and faunal succession on Java, Indonesia: evidence from Song Gupuh (2008) (59)
- A reassessment of the early archaeological record at Leang Burung 2, a Late Pleistocene rock-shelter site on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi (2018) (52)
- Preface: research at Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia. (2009) (50)
- Archaeological implications of the geology and chronology of the Soa basin, Flores, Indonesia (2001) (45)
- Reconstructing the geomorphic history of Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia: a stratigraphic interpretation of the occupational environment. (2009) (45)
- Stone artefacts from the 1994 excavation at Mata Menge, West Central Flores, Indonesia (1997) (44)
- New wrist bones of Homo floresiensis from Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia). (2013) (43)
- The archaeology of art: excavations at Maidenwell and Gatton Shelters, southeast Queensland (1986) (40)
- Early Man in North Queensland (1982) (39)
- One Colour, (at Least) Two Minerals: A Study of Mulberry Rock Art Pigment and a Mulberry Pigment ‘Quarry’ from the Kimberley, Northern Australia (2015) (38)
- AMS RADIOCARBON AGES FOR BEESWAX AND CHARCOAL PIGMENTS IN NORTH KIMBERLEY ROCK ART (2010) (38)
- Revised age for Mojokerto 1, an early Homo erectus cranium from East Java, Indonesia (2003) (36)
- The evolving landscape and climate of western Flores: an environmental context for the archaeological site of Liang Bua. (2009) (35)
- Quinkan prehistory : the archaeology of aboriginal art in S.E. Cape York Peninsula, Australia (1995) (34)
- Establishing the time of initial human occupation of Liang Bua, western Flores, Indonesia (2007) (34)
- Edge-ground axes in Pleistocene Greater Australia: new evidence from S.E. Cape York Peninsula (1989) (34)
- Stone technology at the Middle Pleistocene site of Mata Menge, Flores, Indonesia (2010) (32)
- State of the Art: Regional Rock Art Studies in Australia and Melanesia (1994) (31)
- The Asian connection: preliminary report on Indonesian trepang sites on the Kimberley coast, N.W. Australia (1997) (29)
- The type specimen (LB1) of Homo floresiensis did not have Laron syndrome. (2009) (29)
- Art and stone : towards a prehistory of central western Queensland (1979) (29)
- Spear and spearthrower evolution in the Kimberley region, N.W. Australia : evidence from rock art (1999) (29)
- Into the Past: A Step Towards a Robust Kimberley Rock Art Chronology (2016) (27)
- Themes in the prehistory of tropical Australia (1995) (27)
- A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia, Updated Paperback Edition (2017) (27)
- Illuminating Southeast Asian Prehistory: New Archaeological and Paleoanthropological Frontiers for Luminescence Dating (2005) (26)
- Initial speleothem results from western Flores and eastern Java, Indonesia: were climate changes from 47 to 5 ka responsible for the extinction of Homo floresiensis? (2007) (25)
- Late Pleistocene-Holocene Non-Passerine Avifauna of Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) (2013) (24)
- Homo floresiensis and the late Pleistocene environments of eastern Indonesia: defining the nature of the relationship (2009) (21)
- Rock Art, Ritual and Relationships: An archaeological analysis of rock art from the central Australian arid zone (2004) (20)
- The prehistory of Aboriginal landuse on the upper Flinders River, North Queensland Highlands (1990) (19)
- The dating potential of rock art in the Kimberley, NW Australia (1994) (19)
- Untangling time-averaging in shell middens: Defining temporal units using amino acid racemisation (2016) (15)
- Rock-picture chronologies and palaeoenvironmental records from fossil mud-wasp nests: preliminary investigations using optical dating. (2000) (14)
- Elephantoidea in the Indonesian region: new Stegodon findings from Flores (2002) (13)
- ABORIGINAL SITES IN THE HUGHENDEN REGION, NORTH QUEENSLAND HIGHLANDS Research prospects (1982) (13)
- The first Australian Synchrotron powder diffraction analysis of pigment from a Wandjina motif in the Kimberley, Western Australia (2014) (12)
- TIME, SPACE AND PREHISTORIC ART: A PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS (1980) (12)
- Inside information: settlement and alliance in the late Holocene of Northeastern New South Wales (1992) (10)
- Bowen Basin Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Project: A Strategic Regional Approach for Research and Management (1999) (10)
- Archaeology and art in context: Excavations at the Gunu Site Complex, Northwest Kimberley, Western Australia (2020) (10)
- Analogy and the Acceptance of Theory in Archaeology (1975) (9)
- Faces of Homo floresiensis (LB1) (2013) (9)
- Environmental reconstruction of the Middle Pleistocene archaeological/palaeontological site Mata Menge, Flores, Indonesia (2009) (9)
- Rock Art Research in Australia 1974-94 (1994) (8)
- A Reply to Trueman's "A new cladistic analysis of Homo floresiensis." (2010) (8)
- Ken's Cave and the Art of Central-Western Queensland (1978) (8)
- Preliminary U-series and Thermoluminescence dating of excavated deposits in Liang Bua sub-chamber, Flores, Indonesia (2013) (7)
- Beads across Australia: An ethnographic and archaeological view of the patterning of Aboriginal ornaments (2009) (6)
- The Brremangurey pearl: A 2000 year old archaeological find from the coastal Kimberley, Western Australia (2015) (6)
- The people time forgot (2005) (5)
- Southern Asia, Australia and the Search for Human Origins: Faunal Biogeography in Island Southeast Asia (2014) (4)
- 4. Homo on Flores: Some early implications for the evolution of language and cognition (2007) (4)
- Aboriginal Bark Burial: 700 Years of Mortuary Tradition in the Central Queensland Highlands (2002) (4)
- Bradshaws: Ancient Paintings of North-West Australia by Grahame L.Walsh (1996) (4)
- HOMO ERECTUS: GLORIFIED CHIMP OR LEGITIMATE ANCESTOR? (1998) (3)
- Isolating downward displacement: The solutions and challenges of amino acid racemisation in shell midden archaeology (2017) (3)
- Excavations at Hann River 1, Central Cape York Peninsula (1995) (3)
- Establishing rates of karst landscape evolution in the Tropics: a context for the formation of archaeological sites in western Flores, Indonesia (2010) (3)
- Non‐Destructive or Noninvasive? The Potential Effect of X‐Ray Fluorescence Spectrometers on Luminescence Age Estimates of Archaeological Samples (2016) (3)
- Archaeology of the Gyranda region, Dawson River, central Queensland (1987) (2)
- Bradshaws: Ancient Paintings of Northwest Australia [Book Review] (1996) (2)
- Edge-ground axes in Pleistocene Greater Australia - more evidence from S.E. Cape York Peninsula: a reply to Sutton (1990) (2)
- Correction: A reassessment of the early archaeological record at Leang Burung 2, a Late Pleistocene rock-shelter site on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi (2018) (2)
- An integrative geochronological framework for the pleistocene So'a basin (Flores, Indonesia), and its implications for faunal turnover and hominin arrival (2022) (1)
- John Charlot, The Hawaiian Poetry of Religion and Politics: Some Religio-Political Concepts in Postcontact Literature (1985) (1)
- A Late Pleistocene flaking surface from the 20-m Solo River Terrace, Central Java, Indonesia (2014) (1)
- Recent application of (super 14) C measurements to soil organic matter dynamics. (2006) (0)
- OSL dating: an essential tool for building a geoarchaeological framework - evidence from sites in Asia and Australia (2013) (0)
- Josephine Flood, Archaeology of the Dreamtime (1985) (0)
- Caching and Native Well: a reply to Hiscock (1989) (0)
- Current Queensland archaeological research (1988) (0)
- Sangiran: Man, Culture, and Environment in Pleistocene Times: Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Sangiran, Solo-Indonesia, 21-24 September 1998 (review) (2004) (0)
- Changing art in a shifting landscape: A comparative study of rock art sequences in northwest Australia using headdress depictions as a principal method of identification (2018) (0)
- Aboriginal art in central western Queensland : history of recording (1984) (0)
- Chief Autobiography (2017) (2017) (0)
- Sex, lies and symbolic behaviour. [Paper originally presented at a conference in Calgary, Canada] (1998) (0)
- Last appearance of Homo erectus at Ngandong, Java, 117,000–108,000 years ago (2019) (0)
- Response to Comment on "The Brain of LB1, Homo floresiensis" (2005) (0)
- Early Man in North Queensland: Art and Archaeology in the Laura Area [Book Review] (1982) (0)
- Hobbits in context: hominin biogeography in island Southeast Asia (2013) (0)
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