Ballot Archive

25 Mar 2021

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Tiina Manne

Academic degrees, honours etc.

PhD U Arizona 2010, MSc U Miami 2003; BSc Hons (First) 1998, BSc Archaeology and Zoology 1997 James Cook University

Profession or occupation

Archaeologist/Senior Lecturer

Grounds for election

Tiina Manne is emerging as Australia's leading zooarchaeologist. After undergraduate training in archaeology and zoology including a First Class Honours degree at James Cook University in Australia, Tiina moved to the USA and did an MA in Marine Geology in Miami then a PhD in archaeology in Arizona. Her PhD concerned the Iberian Upper Palaeolithic in Portugal. Since returning to Australia she has maintained her links with research in Portugal while rapidly developing her standing as the archaeozoologist of choice on major projects across Australia and in Papua New Guinea. These projects include the investigation of Australia's oldest known site of human habitation, dating back some 65,000 years as she published as a co-author in Nature in 2017. Tiina's professional trajectory has recently seen her invited to affiliate with the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. She is also the President of the Australian Archaeological Association.

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