Alan Thorne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3807625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Thorne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Thorne |
| SIGNATURE | THORNE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 550 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Stratigraphy and chronology of the WLH 50 human remains, Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area, Australia
Human origins in Australia
This paper commences with a review of the anatomical and genetic evidence for the origins of Aboriginal Australians. Recent controversies surrounding the developmental age and sex of some Pleistocene individuals are reviewed. An updated description and new analyses of the morphological evidence for gracile and robust Pleistocene populations is provided utilising descriptive anatomy, metrics and multivariate analysis. Thirty-four cranial and denta…
The question of cranial robusticity
The existence of a morphologically robust Pleistocene Australian population has been controversial. This is largely due to the pivotal role this group has played in the multiregional model of modern human origins. Some researchers have argued that the robust morphology results at least in part from pseudopathology (artificial deformation) or pathology (haemoglobinopathy) rather than representing normal anatomical form. The present contribution pu…
Myanmar prehistory
New investigations of prehistoric sites in Myanmar by a joint Australia – Myanmar team have revealed important rock markings, including the first major cupule site from mainland Southeast Asia
Lake Mungo 3
Sex and significance of Lake Mungo 3
Age of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton, reply to Bowler & Magee and to Gillespie & Roberts
A New Reconstruction of the Shanidar 5 Cranium
Une nouvelle observation du crâne néandertalien Shanidar 5 (Irak), a montré que, lors de sa reconstruction, le pariétal gauche avait été mal positionné. Une correction de l'orientation du pariétal enlève toute indication du profil sagittal des pariétaux. Il n 'est donc plus possible de maintenir que Shanidar 5 a subi une déformation artificielle du crâne et ce même si tous les crânes néandertaliens de Shanidar présentent un aplatissement frontal …
Australia's oldest human remains
ESR and U-series analyses of teeth from the palaeoanthropological site of Hexian, Anhui Province, China
ESR analysis of teeth from the palaeoanthropological site of Zhoukoudian, China
Reply to Brown
We wish to make two simple points. Firstly, this series of critique and counter critique rests ultimately on a dispute over a single skeletal measurement. We demonstrated (Thorne and Sim 1994) that the measurement we published was correct and can be verified in photographic documentation. In the year since this was published neither Brown nor anyone else has asked to examine the photographs or slides of the remains, and we take this as acceptance…
Pleistocene Human Occupation Site At Lake Urana, New South Wales
Lake Urana is located at the eastern margin of the Riverine Plain of southeastern Australia. Â In its oval to kidney shape, shallow topography, northwest to southeast orientation and shoreline geomorphology Lake Urana closely resembles other lakes of the Mur ray Basin including Mungo, Tyrrell and Kow Swamp. Although Lake Urana often holds surface water in late winter and early spring it has filled to overflow level only four times since records w…
Getting It Straight
Peer Reviewed
Theories of Modern Human Origins
The Multiregional Evolution of Humans
Pleistocene Human Remains From King Island, Southeastern Australia
In September 1989 during archaeological test excavations in caves on King Island Sim discovered a human skeleton. The remains, which are those of an Aboriginal, have been dated to approximately 14,000 years ago. This Pleistocene date for human presence on what is now King Island is significant for a variety of reasons. These human remains are of similar antiquity to both the Kow Swamp and Keilor remains and thus among Australia's earliest. They d…
A congenital meningocoele in prehistoric Australia
This report concerns a congenital meningocoele in a young adult Aboriginal female from north‐western New South Wales, Australia. The fact that this individual reached adulthood throws new light on the attitude of these nomadic people towards such conditions. Evidence of this kind may prompt also a re‐evaluation by prehistorians and anthropologists of the popularly held belief that all such malformations were automatically eliminated by infanticid…
Definitely Not the Australian Prehistory
Regional continuity in Australasian Pleistocene hominid evolution
A reconstruction of the Indonesian male Homo erectus specimen Sangiran 17 reveals a suite of features that suggests regional morphological continuity in Australasia during the middle and late Pleistocene. Characteristics reflecting a morphological clade are established through a comparison with the males from Kow Swamp, the late Pleistocene Australian site with the largest number of hominid specimens. It is argued that the “center and edge” hypot…
Theories of Modern Human Origins
Australia's oldest human remains
Regional continuity in Australasian Pleistocene hominid evolution
A reconstruction of the Indonesian male Homo erectus specimen Sangiran 17 reveals a suite of features that suggests regional morphological continuity in Australasia during the middle and late Pleistocene. Characteristics reflecting a morphological clade are established through a comparison with the males from Kow Swamp, the late Pleistocene Australian site with the largest number of hominid specimens. It is argued that the “center and edge” hypot…
ESR analysis of teeth from the palaeoanthropological site of Zhoukoudian, China
ESR and U-series analyses of teeth from the palaeoanthropological site of Hexian, Anhui Province, China
Getting It Straight
Peer Reviewed
Pleistocene Human Remains From King Island, Southeastern Australia
In September 1989 during archaeological test excavations in caves on King Island Sim discovered a human skeleton. The remains, which are those of an Aboriginal, have been dated to approximately 14,000 years ago. This Pleistocene date for human presence on what is now King Island is significant for a variety of reasons. These human remains are of similar antiquity to both the Kow Swamp and Keilor remains and thus among Australia's earliest. They d…
Age of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton, reply to Bowler & Magee and to Gillespie & Roberts
Stratigraphy and chronology of the WLH 50 human remains, Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area, Australia
A congenital meningocoele in prehistoric Australia
This report concerns a congenital meningocoele in a young adult Aboriginal female from north‐western New South Wales, Australia. The fact that this individual reached adulthood throws new light on the attitude of these nomadic people towards such conditions. Evidence of this kind may prompt also a re‐evaluation by prehistorians and anthropologists of the popularly held belief that all such malformations were automatically eliminated by infanticid…
Myanmar prehistory
New investigations of prehistoric sites in Myanmar by a joint Australia – Myanmar team have revealed important rock markings, including the first major cupule site from mainland Southeast Asia
A New Reconstruction of the Shanidar 5 Cranium
Une nouvelle observation du crâne néandertalien Shanidar 5 (Irak), a montré que, lors de sa reconstruction, le pariétal gauche avait été mal positionné. Une correction de l'orientation du pariétal enlève toute indication du profil sagittal des pariétaux. Il n 'est donc plus possible de maintenir que Shanidar 5 a subi une déformation artificielle du crâne et ce même si tous les crânes néandertaliens de Shanidar présentent un aplatissement frontal …
Sex and significance of Lake Mungo 3
Human origins in Australia
This paper commences with a review of the anatomical and genetic evidence for the origins of Aboriginal Australians. Recent controversies surrounding the developmental age and sex of some Pleistocene individuals are reviewed. An updated description and new analyses of the morphological evidence for gracile and robust Pleistocene populations is provided utilising descriptive anatomy, metrics and multivariate analysis. Thirty-four cranial and denta…
The question of cranial robusticity
The existence of a morphologically robust Pleistocene Australian population has been controversial. This is largely due to the pivotal role this group has played in the multiregional model of modern human origins. Some researchers have argued that the robust morphology results at least in part from pseudopathology (artificial deformation) or pathology (haemoglobinopathy) rather than representing normal anatomical form. The present contribution pu…
Lake Mungo 3
Regional continuity in Australasian Pleistocene hominid evolution
A reconstruction of the Indonesian male Homo erectus specimen Sangiran 17 reveals a suite of features that suggests regional morphological continuity in Australasia during the middle and late Pleistocene. Characteristics reflecting a morphological clade are established through a comparison with the males from Kow Swamp, the late Pleistocene Australian site with the largest number of hominid specimens. It is argued that the “center and edge” hypot…
Definitely Not the Australian Prehistory
A congenital meningocoele in prehistoric Australia
This report concerns a congenital meningocoele in a young adult Aboriginal female from north‐western New South Wales, Australia. The fact that this individual reached adulthood throws new light on the attitude of these nomadic people towards such conditions. Evidence of this kind may prompt also a re‐evaluation by prehistorians and anthropologists of the popularly held belief that all such malformations were automatically eliminated by infanticid…
Pleistocene Human Remains From King Island, Southeastern Australia
In September 1989 during archaeological test excavations in caves on King Island Sim discovered a human skeleton. The remains, which are those of an Aboriginal, have been dated to approximately 14,000 years ago. This Pleistocene date for human presence on what is now King Island is significant for a variety of reasons. These human remains are of similar antiquity to both the Kow Swamp and Keilor remains and thus among Australia's earliest. They d…
The Multiregional Evolution of Humans
Theories of Modern Human Origins
Pleistocene Human Occupation Site At Lake Urana, New South Wales
Lake Urana is located at the eastern margin of the Riverine Plain of southeastern Australia. Â In its oval to kidney shape, shallow topography, northwest to southeast orientation and shoreline geomorphology Lake Urana closely resembles other lakes of the Mur ray Basin including Mungo, Tyrrell and Kow Swamp. Although Lake Urana often holds surface water in late winter and early spring it has filled to overflow level only four times since records w…
Getting It Straight
Peer Reviewed
Reply to Brown
We wish to make two simple points. Firstly, this series of critique and counter critique rests ultimately on a dispute over a single skeletal measurement. We demonstrated (Thorne and Sim 1994) that the measurement we published was correct and can be verified in photographic documentation. In the year since this was published neither Brown nor anyone else has asked to examine the photographs or slides of the remains, and we take this as acceptance…
ESR analysis of teeth from the palaeoanthropological site of Zhoukoudian, China
ESR and U-series analyses of teeth from the palaeoanthropological site of Hexian, Anhui Province, China
A New Reconstruction of the Shanidar 5 Cranium
Une nouvelle observation du crâne néandertalien Shanidar 5 (Irak), a montré que, lors de sa reconstruction, le pariétal gauche avait été mal positionné. Une correction de l'orientation du pariétal enlève toute indication du profil sagittal des pariétaux. Il n 'est donc plus possible de maintenir que Shanidar 5 a subi une déformation artificielle du crâne et ce même si tous les crânes néandertaliens de Shanidar présentent un aplatissement frontal …
Australia's oldest human remains
Sex and significance of Lake Mungo 3
Age of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton, reply to Bowler & Magee and to Gillespie & Roberts
Lake Mungo 3
Myanmar prehistory
New investigations of prehistoric sites in Myanmar by a joint Australia – Myanmar team have revealed important rock markings, including the first major cupule site from mainland Southeast Asia
Human origins in Australia
This paper commences with a review of the anatomical and genetic evidence for the origins of Aboriginal Australians. Recent controversies surrounding the developmental age and sex of some Pleistocene individuals are reviewed. An updated description and new analyses of the morphological evidence for gracile and robust Pleistocene populations is provided utilising descriptive anatomy, metrics and multivariate analysis. Thirty-four cranial and denta…
The question of cranial robusticity
The existence of a morphologically robust Pleistocene Australian population has been controversial. This is largely due to the pivotal role this group has played in the multiregional model of modern human origins. Some researchers have argued that the robust morphology results at least in part from pseudopathology (artificial deformation) or pathology (haemoglobinopathy) rather than representing normal anatomical form. The present contribution pu…
Stratigraphy and chronology of the WLH 50 human remains, Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area, Australia
Archaeology (17 works) · Geography (12 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (12 works) · Biology (9 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (9 works) · History (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · History (7 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (7 works) · Paleontology (7 works)