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Michael I. Bird

21 works· latest 2026· 6 institutionscluster: provisionalORCID 0000-0003-1801-8703

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Most cited in this library

Woody cover and hominin environments in the past 6 million years2011 · 638 citations
Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia2004 · 596 citations
The ‘human revolution’ in lowland tropical Southeast Asia: the antiquity and behavior of anatomically modern humans at Niah Cave (Sarawak, Borneo)2006 · 438 citations
Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia2016 · 169 citations
Palaeogeography and voyage modeling indicates early human colonization of Australia was likely from Timor-Roti2018 · 122 citations

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Large estimated size of the Australian Indigenous population before its extensive decline following colonial invasion

Nature Human Behaviour·2026·15 authors·Open access

4citations

Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul

Nature Communications·2021·19 authors·Open access

105citations

Landscape rules predict optimal superhighways for the first peopling of Sahul

Nature Human Behaviour·2021·8 authors·Open access

71citations

Early human settlement of Sahul was not an accident

Scientific Reports·2019·9 authors·Open access

114citations

Minimum founding populations for the first peopling of Sahul

Nature Ecology & Evolution·2019·11 authors·Open access

61citations

45,610–52,160 years of site and landscape occupation at Nawarla Gabarnmang, Arnhem Land plateau (northern Australia)

Quaternary Science Reviews

·2019

·12 authors

33citations

Palaeogeography and voyage modeling indicates early human colonization of Australia was likely from Timor-Roti

Quaternary Science Reviews·2018·6 authors·Open access

122citations

Humans, water, and the colonization of Australia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2016·3 authors·Open access

66citations

What caused extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna of Sahul?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2016·16 authors·review·Open access

62citations

Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia

Nature Communications·2016·18 authors·Open access

169citations

Barriers and bridges: early human dispersals in equatorial SE Asia

Geological Society London Special Publications·2014·2 authors

47citations

Lack of chronological support for stepwise prehuman extinctions of Australian megafauna

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2013·8 authors·Open access

48citations

Woody cover and hominin environments in the past 6 million years

Nature·2011·9 authors

638citations

Geochronology of cave deposits at Liang Bua and of adjacent river terraces in the Wae Racang valley, western Flores, Indonesia: a synthesis of age estimates for the type locality of Homo floresiensis

Journal of Human Evolution·2009·7 authors

80citations

X-ray microtomographic imaging of charcoal

Journal of Archaeological Science·2008·5 authors

118citations

The ‘human revolution’ in lowland tropical Southeast Asia: the antiquity and behavior of anatomically modern humans at Niah Cave (Sarawak, Borneo)

Journal of Human Evolution·2006·26 authors

438citations

Past Human Activity and Geomorphological Change in a Guano-Rich Tropical Cave Mouth: Initial Interpretations of the Late Quaternary Succession in the Great Cave of Niah, Sarawak

Asian perspectives·2005·8 authors·Open access

46citations

Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia

Nature·2004·14 authors

596citations

Populating PEP II: the dispersal of humans and agriculture through Austral-Asia and Oceania

Quaternary International·2003·3 authors

47citations

Prehistoric Foragers and Farmers in South-east Asia: Renewed Investigations at Niah Cave, Sarawak

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society·2002·20 authors

101citations

Buang Merabak: Early Evidence For Human Occupation In The Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea

Australian Archaeology·2002·6 authors·Open access

68citations