Darren Curnoe
Biographic Data
| ID | 94497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darren Curnoe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darren |
| FAMILY NAME | Curnoe |
| SIGNATURE | CURNOE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8622-4141 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 437 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Pottery residues provide earliest direct evidence for domestication and dairy processing in equatorial Mainland Southeast Asia
Changing climates and emerging patterns: Prehistoric human diet of Sri Lanka from Late Pleistocene through Late Holocene
A new chronological framework for Chuandong Cave and its implications for the appearance of modern humans in southern China
Preliminary Technological and Functional Studies of the Neolithic Stone Reaping Knives from West Malaysia: An Experimental Approach
The distinctive “saddle-shape” stone knives known as Tembeling knives of West Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia) have long been used to characterize the early agricultural activities of Neolithic populations in the region. While these tools are morphologically suggestive of a reaping function, their association with early plant use has never been established. The present study explores for the first time the function of Tembeling knives through a pre…
Further analyses of the Deep Skull femur from Niah Caves, Malaysia
The Palaeolithic stone assemblage of Kota Tampan, West Malaysia
Archaeological excavations at Kota Tampan in West Malaysia recovered a large stone assemblage dated to 70 kya and believed to be associated with the presence of early Anatomically Modern Humans in Mainland Southeast Asia. New technological analysis demonstrates that almost all these stone artefacts result from early stage reduction through freehand and bipolar percussion
Revisiting the 3000-year-old Neolithic burial ground of Gua Harimau, West Malaysia
Craniofacial Shape and Nonmetric Trait Variation in Hybrids of the Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata) and the Taiwanese Macaque (Macaca cyclopis)
Implications of multi-modal age distributions in Pleistocene cave deposits: A case study of Maludong palaeoathropological locality, southern China
Community heritage engagement in Malaysian archaeology: A case from the prehistoric rock art site of Tambun
This paper explores contemporary community archaeology in Malaysia, through the consideration of the example of the Prehistoric Rock Art site of Gua Tambun. It argues that the existing community heritage engagement practices often disenfranchise the community knowledge, and highly conform to a top-down model. Our investigations pointed out a pattern of exclusion, where the inclusion of the local community in management planning is relatively low.…
Femur associated with the Deep Skull from the West Mouth of the Niah Caves (Sarawak, Malaysia)
Cave use and palaeoecology at Maludong (Red Deer Cave), Yunnan, China
Hunting for evidence of cognitive planning: Archaeological signatures versus psychological realities
Dental remains from Longtanshan cave 1 (Yunnan, China), and the initial presence of anatomically modern humans in East Asia
Welfare based primate rehabilitation as a potential conservation strategy: Does it measure up?
The global implications of the early surviving rock art of greater Southeast Asia
The rock art of Southeast Asia has been less thoroughly studied than that of Europe or Australia, and it has generally been considered to be more recent in origin. New dating evidence from Mainland and Island Southeast Asia, however, demonstrates that the earliest motifs (hand stencils and naturalistic animals) are of late Pleistocene age and as early as those of Europe. The similar form of the earliest painted motifs in Europe, Africa and Southe…
A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on the Age of Australopithecus in Southern Africa
The Spatial Distribution of Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus) Habitat Based on an Environmental Envelope Model
Assessment of the release of rehabilitated vervet monkeys into the Ntendeka Wilderness Area, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A case study
Distribution and population estimate for the chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Backfill Obituaries
Vault thickness in two Pleistocene Australian crania
Uranium-series age estimates for rock art in southwest China
A 150-Year Conundrum: Cranial Robusticity and Its Bearing on the Origin of Aboriginal Australians
The origin of Aboriginal Australians has been a central question of palaeoanthropology since its inception during the 19th Century. Moreover, the idea that Australians could trace their ancestry to a non-modern Pleistocene population such as Homo erectus in Southeast Asia have existed for more than 100 years, being explicitly linked to cranial robusticity. It is argued here that in order to resolve this issue a new program of research should be e…
A man on the rim
Australia's oldest human remains: Age of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton
A multi-disciplinary seriation of early Homo and Paranthropus bearing palaeocaves in southern Africa
Description, new reconstruction, comparative anatomy, and classification of the Sterkfontein Stw 53 cranium, with discussions about the taxonomy of other southern African early Homo remains
Direct ESR dating of a Pliocene hominin from Swartkrans
The global implications of the early surviving rock art of greater Southeast Asia
The rock art of Southeast Asia has been less thoroughly studied than that of Europe or Australia, and it has generally been considered to be more recent in origin. New dating evidence from Mainland and Island Southeast Asia, however, demonstrates that the earliest motifs (hand stencils and naturalistic animals) are of late Pleistocene age and as early as those of Europe. The similar form of the earliest painted motifs in Europe, Africa and Southe…
Possible causes and significance of cranial robusticity among Pleistocene–Early Holocene Australians
Modern human origins in Australasia: Testing the predictions of competing models
Uranium-series age estimates for rock art in southwest China
Naturalism, Nature and Questions of Style in Jinsha River Rock Art, Northwest Yunnan, China
The naturalistic rock art of Yunnan Province is poorly known outside of China despite two decades of investigation by local researchers. The authors report on the first major international study of this art, its place in antiquity and its resemblance to some of the rock art of Europe, southern Africa and elsewhere. While not arguing a direct connection between China, Europe and other widely separated places, this article suggests that rock-art st…
Age of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton, reply to Bowler & Magee and to Gillespie & Roberts
Evidence of pathological conditions in the Florisbad cranium
Cave use and palaeoecology at Maludong (Red Deer Cave), Yunnan, China
Vault thickness in two Pleistocene Australian crania
A 150-Year Conundrum: Cranial Robusticity and Its Bearing on the Origin of Aboriginal Australians
The origin of Aboriginal Australians has been a central question of palaeoanthropology since its inception during the 19th Century. Moreover, the idea that Australians could trace their ancestry to a non-modern Pleistocene population such as Homo erectus in Southeast Asia have existed for more than 100 years, being explicitly linked to cranial robusticity. It is argued here that in order to resolve this issue a new program of research should be e…
Odontometric systematic assessment of the Swartkrans SK 15 mandible
The Spatial Distribution of Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus) Habitat Based on an Environmental Envelope Model
Affinities of the Swartkrans early Homo mandibles
The Palaeolithic stone assemblage of Kota Tampan, West Malaysia
Archaeological excavations at Kota Tampan in West Malaysia recovered a large stone assemblage dated to 70 kya and believed to be associated with the presence of early Anatomically Modern Humans in Mainland Southeast Asia. New technological analysis demonstrates that almost all these stone artefacts result from early stage reduction through freehand and bipolar percussion
Community heritage engagement in Malaysian archaeology: A case from the prehistoric rock art site of Tambun
This paper explores contemporary community archaeology in Malaysia, through the consideration of the example of the Prehistoric Rock Art site of Gua Tambun. It argues that the existing community heritage engagement practices often disenfranchise the community knowledge, and highly conform to a top-down model. Our investigations pointed out a pattern of exclusion, where the inclusion of the local community in management planning is relatively low.…
Femur associated with the Deep Skull from the West Mouth of the Niah Caves (Sarawak, Malaysia)
A new chronological framework for Chuandong Cave and its implications for the appearance of modern humans in southern China
Dental remains from Longtanshan cave 1 (Yunnan, China), and the initial presence of anatomically modern humans in East Asia
Sex and significance of Lake Mungo 3: Reply to Brown “Australian Pleistocene variation and the sex of Lake Mungo 3
Further analyses of the Deep Skull femur from Niah Caves, Malaysia
Revisiting the 3000-year-old Neolithic burial ground of Gua Harimau, West Malaysia
Australia's oldest human remains: Age of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton
Sex and significance of Lake Mungo 3: Reply to Brown “Australian Pleistocene variation and the sex of Lake Mungo 3
Age of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton, reply to Bowler & Magee and to Gillespie & Roberts
Cranial variability in East African ‘Robust’ hominis
Direct ESR dating of a Pliocene hominin from Swartkrans
Problems with the use of cladistic analysis in palaeoanthropology
Number of ancestral human species: A molecular perspective
Mandibular fossa of fossil Australians
Human origins in Australia: The Skeletal Evidence
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…
Modern human origins - Australian perspectives: An Introduction
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…
Odontometric systematic assessment of the Swartkrans SK 15 mandible
Description, new reconstruction, comparative anatomy, and classification of the Sterkfontein Stw 53 cranium, with discussions about the taxonomy of other southern African early Homo remains
Modern human origins in Australasia: Testing the predictions of competing models
Possible causes and significance of cranial robusticity among Pleistocene–Early Holocene Australians
Affinities of the Swartkrans early Homo mandibles
A multi-disciplinary seriation of early Homo and Paranthropus bearing palaeocaves in southern Africa
Sexual dimorphism in Southeast Asian crania: A geometric morphometric approach
A man on the rim
A man on the rim
Naturalism, Nature and Questions of Style in Jinsha River Rock Art, Northwest Yunnan, China
The naturalistic rock art of Yunnan Province is poorly known outside of China despite two decades of investigation by local researchers. The authors report on the first major international study of this art, its place in antiquity and its resemblance to some of the rock art of Europe, southern Africa and elsewhere. While not arguing a direct connection between China, Europe and other widely separated places, this article suggests that rock-art st…
Evidence of pathological conditions in the Florisbad cranium
Uranium-series age estimates for rock art in southwest China
A 150-Year Conundrum: Cranial Robusticity and Its Bearing on the Origin of Aboriginal Australians
The origin of Aboriginal Australians has been a central question of palaeoanthropology since its inception during the 19th Century. Moreover, the idea that Australians could trace their ancestry to a non-modern Pleistocene population such as Homo erectus in Southeast Asia have existed for more than 100 years, being explicitly linked to cranial robusticity. It is argued here that in order to resolve this issue a new program of research should be e…
Assessment of the release of rehabilitated vervet monkeys into the Ntendeka Wilderness Area, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A case study
Geography (34 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (30 works) · Archaeology (26 works) · Biology (25 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (21 works) · Paleontology (20 works) · Geology (18 works) · Pleistocene (16 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 works) · Evolutionary biology (14 works)