UNEAC Affiliated Fellow
| A/Prof. Michael John Morwood Archaeology School of Human and Environmental Studies The University of New England Armidale, NSW 2351 Australia. Phone: 67732357 Fax: 67733030 Email: mmorwood@metz.une.edu.au |
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UNEAC Affiliated Fellow
| A/Prof. Michael John Morwood Archaeology School of Human and Environmental Studies The University of New England Armidale, NSW 2351 Australia. Phone: 67732357 Fax: 67733030 Email: mmorwood@metz.une.edu.au |
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Appointed as lecturer in Archaeology at UNE in 1981.
Have undertaken regional research projects in Central Queensland Highalnds, the North Queensland Highlands, SE Queensland, SE Cape York Peninsula and the Kimberley.
President of the Australian Rock Art Reseach Asociation 1992-2000.
Currently working early hominid sites in Indonesia.
Research interests and current research projects related to Asia:
Current project - 'Astride the Wallace Line: 1.5 million years of human evolution, dispersal, culture and environmental change in Indonesia'. This project is focused on two areas, West Flores and East Java, but also includes research in Sumba, Sulawesi and other adjacent areas of island and mainland S.E. Asia. It includes ethnography, surveys, excavations and input from a number of other discplines.
Other relevant information:
Personal web page URL : http://www.une.edu.au/Arch/ROCKART/MMRockArt.html
Recent publications:
Metcalfe, I. 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. 2002 Visions from the past; the archaeology of Australian Aboriginal art. Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
Morwood, M.J., F. Aziz, J. de Vos, G. van den Bergh and P. Sondaar 1997 Stone artefacts from the 1994 excavation at Mata Menge, west central Flores, Indonesia. Australian Archaeology: 44: 26-34.
Morwood, M.J. and D.R. Hobbs 1997 The Asian connection: preliminary report on Indonesian trepang sites on the Kimberley coast, N.W. Australia. Archaeology in Oceania 32:197-206.
Morwood, M.J., P. O'Sullivan, F. Aziz and A. Raza 1998 Fission track age of stone tools and fossils on the east Indonesian island of Flores. Nature 392 (12 March): 173-6.
Morwood, M.J., F. Aziz, Nasruddin, D.R. Hobbs, P. B. O'Sullivan and A. Raza 1999 Archaeological and palaeontological research in central Flores, east Indonesia: results of fieldwork, 1997-98. Antiquity (June). 73(280): 273-286.
Morwood, M.J. 2001 When hominids first crossed Wallace's Line. In N. Boaz & A. Almquist (eds), Biological Anthropology, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall: Frontiers Box Chapter 2.
Morwood, M.J. 2001 Early hominid occupation of Flores, East Indonesia, and its wider significance. In I. Metcalfe, I. Smith, I. Davidson and M.J. Morwood (eds), Faunal and floral migrations and evolution in SE Asia-Australasia.
Djubiantono, T., M.J. Morwood and Agus 2001 Batu Tulis, a rock engraving site in West Java, Indonesia. Rock Art Research 18(2): 113-114.
O'Sullivan, P., Morwood, M.J., F. Aziz and A. Raza 1998 Homo erectus: glorified chimp or legitimate ancestor. Australasian Science 19(3): 28-31.
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. Walsh, A. Murray, J. Olley, R. Jones, M.J.Morwood, C. Tuniz, E. Lawson, M. Macphail, D. Bowdery and I. Naumann 1997 Luminescence dating of rock art and past environments using mud-wasp nests in northern Australia. Nature 387 (12 June): 696-99.