Adjunct Professor David Cameron

Biography

David Cameron joined UNE in 2025 as an adjunct Professor in Palaeoanthropology. He received First Class Honours in Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Sydney (1989) and completed his PhD on Miocene hominids, School of Anthropology and Archaeology, ANU (1995). He was then awarded an ARC Post doctoral Fellowship while still at the ANU (1995-1997) and later an ARC QEII Fellowship, Department of Anatomy & Histology, University of Sydney (1999-2004). He has written two books on palaeoanthropology: Cameron, D.W. (2004). Hominid Adaptations and Extinctions, University of NSW Press, Sydney; and another with the late Professor Colin Groves (ANU) Cameron, D.W. & Groves C.P.  (2004). Bones, Stones & Molecules: ‘Out of Africa’ and Human Origins, Academic Press, New York. He is currently under contract with Routledge (Oxford) for his third book: The chimpanzee and human last common ancestor: the faciodental evidence (due date early 2027). He has participated and led several international fieldwork projects focusing on fossil hominids and their habitats, including head of the five-year Siwaliks Hominid Project (northern India); fossil orangutangs in norther Vietnam; several fossil hominid studies and excavations in the Middle East (Turkey, Israel, Jordan and the UAE) and Europe (Hungary). Along with several museum studies and conference participation in Europe, the middle East and north America. He is currently developing and leading an international team (Australia, Vietnam, and the USA)  to further explore the caves of northern Vietnam in search of fossil Pongo, Langsonia, Gigantopithecus and Pleistocene hominin specimens, as well as conducting  detailed research of existing fossil collections within several museums and institutes in Vietnam.