Research Centre of Human Evolution
Challenges and Opportunities
for Human Evolution Research
in SE Asia and Australasia
8th - 9th July 2016
SYMPOSIUM PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Friday 8th July
8.30 am
Registration and coffee/tea
9:00 am
9:10 am
Welcome to Country
Research Centre of Human Evolution
overview from Rainer Grun
AUSTRALIAN SESSION
9:30 am
Keynote Speaker: Professor Eske Willerslev
‘Hunting the molecular past of modern humans’
10:15 am
Discussion
10:30 am
Morning Tea
10:50 am
David Lambert
‘Research Centre of Human Evolution and the future of indigenous genomics in Australasia’
11:05 am
Sheila van Holst Pellekaan
‘Genetic heritage of the Darling River and Willandra
peoples of NSW’
11:20 am
Indigenous Australian Elders Discussion, led by Dawn Casey
11:50 am
Peter Hiscock
‘Boundaries and pathways of cultural transmission within Ancient Australia’
12.05 pm
Tanya Smith
‘The Tales Teeth Tell: Dental Perspectives on Human
Evolution’
12:15 pm Lunch
1:00 pm
Chris Clarkson
‘New evidence for early occupation and behavioural
complexity at Madjedbebe (Malakunaja II)’
1:15pm
Michael Westaway
‘Learning from the ancestors: what benefits in studying the ancestral remains of the First Australians?’
Research Centre of Human Evolution
1:30 pm
Arthur Durband
‘Virtual reconstruction of the First Australian (Mungo Man)’
1:45 pm
Indigenous Australian Elder Discussion, led by
Michael Young
2:10 pm
Jon Olley
‘Landscape and Human Co-evolution over the last 50,000 years’
2:25 pm
Gilbert Price
‘Australia’s megafauna extinctions: causes, consequences and knock-on effects’
2:40 pm
Justine Kemp
‘Glacial-age water resources in inland south-eastern
Australia’
2:55 pm
Indigenous Australians Elders Discussion, led by Rodney Carter
3:15pm Afternoon Tea
3:30 pm
Paul Tacon
‘Rock art history, conservation and indigenous well-being’
4:05 pm
Tang Huisheng
‘The Origins and Development of the Mask Images of
Chinese Petroglyphs’
4:20 pm
Discussion and close
6:00 pm - 7:00pm
Public Lecture by Professor Chris Stringer at Brisbane
City Hall
‘The last 100,000 years of human evolution’
7:15 pm - 8:00pm
Official Launch of the Research Centre of Human
Evolution at Brisbane City Hall
8:15 pm - 10:00 pm
Symposium and Launch Dinner at Brisbane City
Hall
Research Centre of Human Evolution
Saturday 9th July
SE ASIA SESSION
8.30 am
Registration and coffee/tea
9:00 am
Adam Brumm/Maxime Aubert
‘Human Origins Research in Indonesia’
9:40 am
Truman Simanjuntak
‘The archaeological and palaeoanthropological research in Indonesia: An overview’
9:55 am
Susan O’Connor - TBA
10:10 am
Discussion (Led by Pindi Setiawan)
10:40 am
Morning Tea
11:00 am
Francois Semah
‘The ancient journey to the islands: unearthing pages of a concealed notebook’
11:15 am
Pindi Setiawan
‘Kalimantan Rock Art: Is the story of preaustronesian?’
11:30 am
Discussion (Led by Mohd Mokhtar Saidin)
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm
Mohd Mokhtar Saidin
‘Prehistoric skeletons of Malaysia’
1:15 pm
Armand Salvador Mijares
‘The Philippine Hominid Record’
1:30 pm
Eusebio Dizon
‘Human Evolution at the Tabon Cave, Quezon Palawan,
Philippines’
1:45 pm
Discussion (Led by Francois Semah)
2:15 pm Afternoon Tea
2:30 pm
2:45 pm
Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith - TBA
Matthew Spriggs
‘The settlement of the Pacific: new data and interpretations’
3:00 pm
Discussion (Led by Chris Stringer)
3.30 pm
Close and thanks by Rainer Grun