Following the succesful completion of a B.A.(Hons). and Ph.D in Biological Anthropology and Pre-History from the Australian National University in Canberra, Steve Webb was appointed Lecturer at ANU in 1984. Initially his research focused on the traditional health of Aboriginal people, eventually leading to his extensive work on the description of the earliest fossil human remains in Australia. Dr. Webb has played a significant role in the repatriation of Aboriginal skeletal remains and works extensively with Aboriginal communities and museums around Australia. He has undertaken field work in central Australia researching the palaeoenvironments of the Simpson Desert and Lake Eyre basin. Aside from his present position as Professor of Australian Studies at Bond University, he is a consultant to the Australian Museum in Canberra, the Australian Museum in Sydney and is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Queensland Museum.
Articles
Late Quaternary distribution and biogeography of the southernLake Eyre basin (SLEB) megafauna, South Australia, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2008)
Understanding the population demography, species distribution and biogeography of Australia’s megafauna is essential for understanding...
Megafauna demography and late Quaternary climatic change in Australia: A predisposition to extinction, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2008)
Arguments about the extinction of Australia's megafauna have largely rested on anthropogenic factors consequent upon...
Pleistocene human footprints from the Willandra Lakes, southeastern Australia (with Matthew L. Cupper and Richard Robins), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2006)
Human and other hominid fossil footprints provide rare but important insights into anatomy and behaviour....
The Natufian human skeletal remains from Wadi Hammeh 27 (Jordan) (with Phillip C. Edwards), Paleorient (2002)
This report describes skeletal remains from the early Natufian site of Wadi Hammeh 27 in...
Intensification, population and social change in Southeastern Australia: the skeletal evidence, Aboriginal History (1984)
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Previously, insights into past societies have nearly always been achieved through archaeological investigation, but by...
Books
The First Boat People, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2006)
The First Boat People concerns how people travelled across the world to Australia in the...