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Alan Thorne

Alan Thorne is an Australian- born academic who has been involved extensively with various anthropological events and is an authority on Australian Aborigine and human genome. Thorne was a professor at Australian National University (ANU) where he taught biology and human anatomy. Through many groundbreaking excavations such as Lake Mungo and Kow Swamp, Alan Thorne has posed significant arguments contradicting the traditionally accepted theories of the journey of human beings through time.^[1]

Lake Mungo

Alan Thorne in 1969 reconstructed the remains of LM1 also known as “Mungo Lady” and LM3 or “Mungo Man” in 1974. Dr. Jim Bowler has been credited with the discovery of both LM1 and LM3 but Alan Thorne performed the reconstruction and analysis of the individuals.

Through the initial reconstruction of Mungo Lady, Thorne discovered her bones to be thin and frail, much more similar to the bones found in any human being today. The Mungo Lady’s skull thickness in particular proved to be the biggest contradiction because other hominid specimens found from around the same time period as her in Australia, which was about 25,000 years ago, were tall, thick-skulled hominids. Upon realizing this contradiction found from the Mungo Lady, Thorne began to examine the possibility of new theories to the fundamental question; “where did Homo sapiens come from?” ^[2]^[3]

^ Thorne, Alan (2). "Kow Swamp Revisited" (PDF). AIATSIS Seminar Series. Retrieved 18 January 2012. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help); Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
^ D'Agnese; 2002, Not Out of Africa, Alan Thorne's challenging ideas about human evolution
^ Frayer, David W.& Wolpoff, Milford H.& Thorne, Alan G.& Smith, Fred H.& Pope, Geoffrey G. Theories of Modern Human Origins: The Paleontological Test. American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 95, No. 1 (Mar., 1993), pp. 14-50

[1] Thorne, Alan (2). "Kow Swamp Revisited" (PDF). AIATSIS Seminar Series. Retrieved 18 January 2012. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help); Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

[2] D'Agnese; 2002, Not Out of Africa, Alan Thorne's challenging ideas about human evolution

[3] Frayer, David W.& Wolpoff, Milford H.& Thorne, Alan G.& Smith, Fred H.& Pope, Geoffrey G. Theories of Modern Human Origins: The Paleontological Test. American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 95, No. 1 (Mar., 1993), pp. 14-50

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