Mike's Projects
Change and Continuity: Chronology, archaeology and art in the north Kimberley, northwest Australia
- Working on when the first colonisation of our continent occurred, and how the first Australians responded to changes in climate, local environments and in situ processes.
- Using a range of numerical dating techniques to obtain a more robust regional chronology for changes in Aboriginal land use, technology, economy and rock art.
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Mike Morwood, June Ross (University of New England) & Kira Westaway (Macquarie University)
Unlocking archives of faunal dispersal in rock deposits: the key to reconstructing palaeoenvironmental change and human dispersal in southeast Asia
- Providing critical new insights into the timing of faunal dispersals and widespread environmental changes in southern China and Southeast Asia over the last 500,000 years.
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Kira Westaway (Macquarie University), Mike Morwood & Gert van den Bergh
In search of the first Asian hominins: Excavations in the Soa Basin of Flores, Indonesia
- Establishing key fossil and behavioural evidence of early hominins in the Soa Basin on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores.
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Mike Morwood, Adam Brumm & Gert van den Bergh