[Anthropgrad] 2009 Mulvaney Lecture, Wednesday 13 May, 7.30pm

[Liz Walters]

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES PRESENTS


2009 MULVANEY LECTURE

Wednesday 13th May 2009 7.30pm 

Theatre 1 Manning Clark Centre, Union Court ANU

'Hobbits in context: hominin biogeography in island Southeast Asia'

Lecture given by

Professor Mike Morwood  

University of Wollongong

 

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Finding evidence for a tiny, new species of human on the island of
Flores in Indonesia was unexpected, but no more so than evidence for
hominins on the island by 880,000 years ago. This lecture will explain
why, with reference to the dispersal and evolutionary histories of other
terrestrial animals in island Southeast Asia.  It will conclude with
some of the implications for early hominin and modern human biogeography
in the region.

THE MULVANEY LECTURE IS HELD BIENNIALLY TO HONOUR PROFESSOR JOHN
MULVANEY, FOUNDATION PROFESSOR OF PREHISTORY IN THE FACULTY OF ARTS

 

Mike Morwood obtained his MA in archaeology at Auckland University
(NZ),and his PhD at the Australian National University, where John
Mulvaney was one of his supervisors. He has been on staff at the
University of New England since 1981, and more recently at the
University of Wollongong. 

In Australia, he has undertaken research projects in a number of regions
including Southeast Cape York Peninsula, the North Queensland Highlands
and the Kimberley. Since 1997, however, he has focused on
interdisciplinary research projects in Indonesia, on the islands of
Java, Sulawesi, Flores and Timor. He co-led the team of Indonesian and
Australian scientists who discovered the skeleton of a tiny new species
of human, Homo floresiensis - known in the popular press as 'Hobbit'.

 

Following the Lecture there will be a supper in the foyer of the Manning
Clark Centre. If you wish to attend the supper, please contact Christine
Dwyer T: 61253498 or E: Christine.dwyer at anu.edu.au  by Friday 8th May
for catering purposes.

 

 

 

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Liz Walters

Graduate Student Officer

School of Archaeology and Anthropology

ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences

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