Tim Maloney

Dr Tim Maloney is an archaeologist at Griffith University’s Centre for Social and Cultural Research, specialising in South East Asian and Australian Archaeology. In 2020, he co-led an Indonesian and Australian team into remote Borneo mountains, home to early rock art, searching for archaeological sites. At Liang Tebo cave, the team excavated a human burial, revealing novel scientific detail on the life-ways of our ancestors 31,000 years ago. This discovery on Iceage Eurasia’s eastern margins shows that humans perfected medical procedures, including amputating the limb of a child who lived into adulthood, thriving in a caring and artistic society.