Associate Professor Tiina Manne
Director, Research
Associate Professor
School of Social Science
+61 7 336 51212
Researcher biography
I research animal skeletal remains at archaeological sites to reconstruct patterns in past diet to understand how people responded to large-scale climate, environmental and cultural change.
I completed my BSc in archaeology and zoology in 1997 at James Cook University, followed with honours in archaeology in 1998. My honours project focused on the animal remains from the Pleistocene- and Holocene-aged of Noala Cave, a rockshelter on the Montebello Islands off the Pilbara coast in Western Australia. Following this, I moved to North America and completed a MSc in marine geology at the University of Miami (2003) and a PhD in anthropology (archaeology) at the University of Arizona (2010). My PhD research focused on reconstructing past diet of peoples occupying the Upper Palaeolithic site of Vale Boi in southern Portugal. In 2012 I returned to Australia and Australian archaeology. My main research project seeks to understand the motivations behind the initial colonisation of northern Australia and New Guinea and the manner in which people subsequently navigated large-scale shifts in climate and local environment.
Book
Veth, Peter, Aplin, Ken, Wallis, Lynley, Manne, Tina, Pulsford, Tim, White, Elizabeth and Chappell, Alan (2007). The archaeology of Montebello Islands, North-West Australia: Late Quaternary foragers on an arid coastline. Oxford, United Kingdom: Archaeopress.
Book Chapters
Manne, Tiina and Louys, Julien (2022). Investigating ancient animals in Mithaka Country. Kirrenderri heart of the Channel Country. (pp. 70-72) edited by Michael C. Westaway, Mandana Maper, Tracey Hough, Shawnee Gorringe and Geoff Ginn. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland, Anthropology Museum.
Manne, Tiina (2012). Vale Boi: 10,000 years of Upper Paleolithic bone boiling. The menial art of cooking. (pp. 173-199) edited by Sarah R. Graff and Enrique Rodriguez-Alegria. Boulder, CO, USA: University Press of Colorado.
Manne, Tiina and Bicho, Nuno F. (2011). Prying new meaning from limpet harvesting at Vale Boi during the Upper Paleolithic. Trekking the shore: Changing coastlines and the antiquity of coastal settlement. (pp. 273-290) edited by Nuno F. Bicho, Jonathan A. Haws and Loren G. Davis. New York, United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8219-3_11
Journal Articles
Adams, Shaun, Norman, Kasih, Kemp, Justine, Jacobs, Zenobia, Costelloe, Michael, Fairbairn, Andrew, Robins, Richard, Stock, Errol, Moss, Patrick, Smith, Tam, Love, Serena, Manne, Tiina, Lowe, Kelsey M., Logan, India, Manoel, Michael, McFadden, Karen, Burns, Darren, Falkiner, Zac and Clarkson, Chris (2024). Early human occupation of Australia’s eastern seaboard. Scientific Reports, 14 (1) 2579. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-52000-y
Peters, Carli, Wang, Yiming, Vakil, Vikram, Cramb, Jonathan, Dortch, Joe, Hocknull, Scott, Lawrence, Rochelle, Manne, Tiina, Monks, Carly, Rössner, Gertrud E., Ryan, Helen, Siversson, Mikael, Ziegler, Tim, Louys, Julien, Price, Gilbert J., Boivin, Nicole and Collins, Matthew J. (2023). Bone collagen from subtropical Australia is preserved for more than 50,000 years. Communications Earth & Environment, 4 (1) 438. doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-01114-8
Barker, Bryce, Lamb, Lara, Leavesley, Matthew, Manne, Tiina, Fairbairn, Andrew, Coe, Andrew, Lowe, Kelsey M., Beni, Teppsy, Neanda, Betty and Aubert, Maxime (2023). A Holocene sequence from Walufeni Cave, Southern Highlands Province, and its implications for the settlement of the Great Papuan Plateau, Papua New Guinea. Australian Archaeology, 89 (1), 47-65. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2023.2175960
Monks, Carly, Stannard, Georgia L., Ouzman, Sven, Manne, Tiina, Garside, Joel and Ulm, Sean (2023). Why do students enrol in archaeology at Australian universities? Understanding pre-enrolment experiences, motivations, and career expectations. Australian Archaeology, 89 (1), 32-46. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2023.2175949
Mein, Erin, Manne, Tiina, Veth, Peter and Weisbecker, Vera (2022). Morphometric classification of kangaroo bones reveals paleoecological change in northwest Australia during the terminal Pleistocene. Scientific Reports, 12 (1) 18245, 1-13. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-21021-w
Ash, Jeremy, Bradley, John J., Mialanes, Jerome, Brady, Liam M., Evans, Shaun, Barrett, David, David, Bruno, Wesley, Daryl, Dotte-Sarout, Emilie, Rowe, Cassandra, Urwin, Chris and Manne, Tiina (2022). Marra philosophies of stone, and the stone artefacts of Walanjiwurru 1 rockshelter, Marra Country, northern Australia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 68 101456, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101456
Ditchfield, Kane, Ulm, Sean, Manne, Tiina, Farr, Helen, O'Grady, Damien and Veth, Peter (2022). Framing Australian Pleistocene coastal occupation and archaeology. Quaternary Science Reviews, 293 107706, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107706
Moody, Kate, Ristovski, Nikola, Manne, Tiina, Ward, Ingrid and Veth, Peter (2022). A burning question: what experimental heating of Australian fauna can tell us about cooking practices in Boodie Cave, Barrow Island, northwest Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 44 103535, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103535
Skippington, Jane, Manne, Tiina, Paterson, Alistair and Veth, Peter (2022). Macropod bone apatite isotopic analysis as evidence for recent environmental change at Bandicoot Bay pearling camp, Barrow Island, Australia. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 26 (4), 1-18. doi: 10.1007/s10761-021-00640-5
Lamb, Lara, Barker, Bryce, Leavesley, Matthew, Aubert, Maxime, Fairbairn, Andrew and Manne, Tiina (2021). Rock engravings and occupation sites in the Mount Bosavi Region, Papua New Guinea: Implications for our understanding of the human presence in the Southern Highlands. Archaeology in Oceania, 56 (3) arco.5247, 304-321. doi: 10.1002/arco.5247
Peters, Carli, Richter, Kristine K., Manne, Tiina, Dortch, Joe, Paterson, Alistair, Travouillon, Kenny, Louys, Julien, Price, Gilbert J., Petraglia, Michael, Crowther, Alison and Boivin, Nicole (2021). Species identification of Australian marsupials using collagen fingerprinting. Royal Society Open Science, 8 (10) 211229, 211229. doi: 10.1098/rsos.211229
Dooley, Tom, Manne, Tiina and Paterson, Alistair (2021). Power in food on the maritime frontier: a zooarchaeology of enslaved pearl divers on Barrow Island, Western Australia. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 25 (2), 544-576. doi: 10.1007/s10761-020-00575-3
Mein, Erin and Manne, Tiina (2021). Identifying marsupials from Australian archaeological sites: current methodological challenges and opportunities in zooarchaeological practice. Archaeology in Oceania, 56 (2) arco.5234, 1-9. doi: 10.1002/arco.5234
Skippington, Jane, Manne, Tiina and Veth, Peter (2021). Isotopic Indications of Late Pleistocene and Holocene Paleoenvironmental Changes at Boodie Cave Archaeological Site, Barrow Island, Western Australia. Molecules, 26 (9) 2582, 2582. doi: 10.3390/molecules26092582
Westaway, Michael C., Williams, Douglas, Lowe, Kelsey, Wright, Nathan J., Kerkhove, Ray, Silcock, Jennifer, Gorringe, Joshua, Miszkiewicz, Justina, Wood, Rachel, Adams, Richard, Manne, Tiina, Adams, Shaun, Miscamble, Tony, Stout, Justin, Wrobel, Gabriel D., Kemp, Justine, Hendry, Brooke, Gorringe, Max, Gorringe, Betty, Lander, Keiron, Gorringe, Shawnee, Andrews, Ian and Collard, Mark (2021). Hidden in plain sight: the archaeological landscape of Mithaka Country, south-west Queensland. Antiquity, 95 (382) PII S0003598X21000314, 1-18. doi: 10.15184/aqy.2021.31
Basiaco, Adriana, Urwin, Chris and Manne, Tiina (2020). Worked bone and teeth from Orokolo Bay in the Papuan Gulf (Papua New Guinea). Australian Archaeology, 86 (3), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2020.1808560
Byrne, Chae, Dooley, Tom, Manne, Tiina, Paterson, Alistair and Dotte-Sarout, Emilie (2020). Island survival: the anthracological and archaeofaunal evidence for colonial-era events on Barrow Island, north-west Australia. Archaeology in Oceania, 55 (1) arco.5202, 15-32. doi: 10.1002/arco.5202
Manne, Tiina, David, Bruno, Petchey, Fiona, Leavesley, Matthew, Roberts, Georgia, Szabó, Katherine, Urwin, Chris, McNiven, Ian J. and Richards, Thomas (2020). How long have dogs been in Melanesia? New evidence from Caution Bay, south coast of Papua New Guinea. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 30 102255, 102255. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102255
Skippington, Jane, Veth, Peter, Manne, Tiina and Slack, Michael (2019). Preanalytical processing of archaeological mammal enamel apatite carbonates for stable isotope investigations: a comparative analysis of the effect of acid treatment on samples from Northwest Australia. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 29 (5) oa.2787, 760-771. doi: 10.1002/oa.2787
David, Bruno, Delannoy, Jean-Jacques, Mialanes, Jerome, Clarkson, Christopher, Petchey, Fiona, Geneste, Jean-Michel, Manne, Tiina, Bird, Michael I., Barker, Bryce, Richards, Thomas, Chalmin, Emilie and Castets, Géraldine (2019). 45,610–52,160 years of site and landscape occupation at Nawarla Gabarnmang, Arnhem Land plateau (northern Australia). Quaternary Science Reviews, 215, 64-85. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.04.027
Ditchfield, Kane, Manne, Tiina, Hook, Fiona, Warn, Ingrid and Veth, Peter (2018). Coastal occupation before the “Big Swamp”: results from excavations at John Wayne Country Rockshelter on Barrow Island. Archaeology in Oceania, 53 (3), 163-178. doi: 10.1002/arco.5164
Skippington, Jane, Manne, Tiina and Veth, Peter (2018). Macropods and measurables: A critical review of contemporary isotopic approaches to palaeo-environmental reconstructions in Australian zooarchaeology. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 17, 144-154. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.11.010
Ward, Ingrid, Veth, Peter Marius, Prossor, L., Denham, T., Ditchfield, Kane, Manne, T., Kendrick, P., Byrne, C., Hook, F. and Troitzcsh, U. (2017). 50,000 years of archaeological site stratigraphy and micromorphology in Boodie Cave, Barrow Island, Western Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 15, 344-369. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.08.012
Clarkson, Chris, Jacobs, Zenobia, Marwick, Ben, Fullagar, Richard, Wallis, Lynley, Smith, Mike, Roberts, Richard G., Hayes, Elspeth, Lowe, Kelsey, Carah, Xavier, Florin, S. Anna, McNeil, Jessica, Cox, Delyth, Arnold, Lee J., Hua, Quan, Huntley, Jillian, Brand, Helen E. A., Manne, Tiina, Fairbairn, Andrew, Shulmeister, James, Lyle, Lindsey, Salinas, Makiah, Page, Mara, Connell, Kate, Park, Gayoung, Norman, Kasih, Murphy, Tessa and Pardoe, Colin (2017). Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago. Nature, 547 (7663), 306-310. doi: 10.1038/nature22968
Veth, Peter M., Ward, Ingrid, Manne, Tiina, Ulm, Sean, Ditchfield, Kane, Dortch, Joe, Hook, Fiona, Petchey, Fiona, Hogg, Alan, Questiaux, Daniele, Demuro, Martina, Arnold, Lee, Spooner, Nigel, Levchenko, Vladimir, Skippington, Jane, Byrne, Chae, Basgall, Mark, Zeanah, David, Belton, David, Helmholz, Petra, Bajkan, Szilvia, Bailey, Richard, Placzek, Christa and Kendrick, Peter (2017). Early human occupation of a maritime desert, Barrow Island, North-west Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 168, 19-29. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.05.002
Cascalheira, Joao, Bicho, Nuno, Manne, Tiina and Horta, Pedro (2017). Cross-scale adaptive behaviors during the Upper Paleolithic in Iberia: the example of Vale Boi (Southwestern Portugal). Quaternary International, 446, 17-30. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.01.002
Manne, Tiina, Balme, Jane and Weisler, Marshall (2016). News from the south: current perspectives in Australian zooarchaeology. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 7, 687-688. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.04.004
Aplin, Ken, Manne, Tiina and Attenbrow, Val (2016). Using a 3-stage burning categorization to assess post-depositional degradation of archaeofaunal assemblages: some observations based on multiple prehistoric sites in Australasia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 7, 700-714. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.11.029
Lowe, Kelsey M., Shulmeister, James, Feinberg, Joshua M., Manne, Tiina, Wallis, Lynley A. and Welsh, Kevin (2016). Using soil magnetic properties to determine the onset of Pleistocene human settlement at Gledswood Shelter 1, Northern Australia. Geoarchaeology, 31 (3), 211-228. doi: 10.1002/gea.21544
Barker, Bryce, Lamb, Lara and Manne, Tiina (2016). Baikaboria Ossuary and the origins of the Kesele Clan, Upper Kikori River, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 7 (1), 89-105.
Miscamble, Tony and Manne, Tiina (2016). A taphonomic signature for quolls in the Australian archaeological record. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 7, 689-699. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.01.011
Veth, Peter, Ward, Ingrid and Manne, Tiina (2016). Coastal feasts: a Pleistocene antiquity for resource abundance in the maritime deserts of north west Australia?. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 12 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/15564894.2015.1132799
Clarkson, Chris, Smith, Mike, Marwick, Ben, Fullagar, Richard, Wallis, Lynley, A., Faulkner, Patrick, Manne, Tiina, Hayes, Elspeth, Roberts, Richard, G., Jacobs, Zenobia, Carah, Xavier, Lowe, Kelsey M., Matthews, Jacqueline and Florin, S. Anna (2015). The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): A site in northern Australia with early occupation. Journal of Human Evolution, 83, 46-64. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.03.014
Manne, Tiina and Veth, Peter M. (2015). Late Pleistocene and early Holocene exploitation of estuarine communities in northwestern Australia. Quaternary International, 385, 112-123. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.12.049
Ward, Ingrid, Veth, Peter and Manne, Tiina (2015). To the islands born: the research potential of submerged landscapes and human habitation sites from the islands of NW Australia. Geological Society Special Publication, 411 (1), 251-263. doi: 10.1144/SP411.4
Lowe, Kelsey M., Wallis, Lynley A., Pardoe, Colin, Marwick, Ben, Clarkson, Chris, Manne, Tiina, Smith, Mike A. and Fullagar, Richard (2014). Ground-penetrating radar and burial practices in western Arnhem Land, Australia. Archaeology in Oceania, 49 (3), 148-157. doi: 10.1002/arco.5039
Manne, Tiina (2014). Erratum to "Early Upper Paleolithic bone processing and insights into small-scale storage of fats at Vale Boi, southern Iberia" [J. Archaeol. Sci. (2014) 111-123]. Journal of Archaeological Science, 44 (1), 206-206. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2014.02.017
Manne, Tiina (2014). Early Upper Paleolithic bone processing and insights into small-scale storage of fats at Vale Boi, southern Iberia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 43 (1), 111-123. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2013.12.003
Bicho, Nuno, Manne, Tiina, Marreiros, João, Cascalheira, João, Pereira, Telmo, Tátá, Frederico, Évora, Marina, Gonçalves, Célia and Infantini, Leandro (2013). The ecodynamics of the first modern humans in southwestern Iberia: the case of Vale Boi, Portugal. Quaternary International, 318, 102-116. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.06.029
Manne, Tiina, Cascalheira, João, Evora, Marina, Marreiros, João and Bicho, Nuno (2012). Intensive subsistence practices at Vale Boi, an Upper Paleolithic site in southwestern Portugal. Quaternary International, 264, 83-99. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.02.026
Manne, Tiina and Starkovich, Britt (2012). Common problems, uncommon solutions: Zooarchaeological contributions to understanding dietary change in Mediterranean-type environments. Quaternary International, 264, 1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.02.034
Bicho, Nuno Ferreira, Gibaja, Juan Francisco, Stiner, Mary and Manne, Tiina (2010). Le paleolithique superieur au sud du Portugal: le site de Vale Boi. L'Anthropologie, 114 (1), 48-67. doi: 10.1016/j.anthro.2010.01.002
Manne, Tiina and Bicho, Nuno (2009). Vale Boi: Rendering new understandings of resource intensification and diversification in southwestern Iberia. Before Farming, 2009 (2 Article 1), 1-21. doi: 10.3828/bfarm.2009.2.1
Conference Paper
Manne, Tiina H., Stiner, Mary C. and Bicho, Nuno F. (2006). Evidence for bone grease rendering during the Upper Paleolithic at Vale Boi (Algarve, Portugal). IV CAP: Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular 2004, Faro, Portugal, 14-19 September, 2004. Faro, Portugal: Faculdade de Ciencias Humanas e Sociais, Universidade do Algarve.