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Name	Alan Gordon Thorne
Born	1 March, 1939 Neutral Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	21 May, 2012 (aged 73) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Cause of Death	dementia
Religious Influence	Anglican Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.
Education *	North Sydney Boys High School (student, 1952-1956) University of Sydney (student, 1960-1972)
Occupation or Descriptor *	academic (1966-1969) New South Wales, Australia archaeologist (1966-1969) New South Wales, Australia academic (1969-2011) Australian Capital Territory, Australia archaeologist (1969-2011) Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Key Organisations *	Australian Academy of the Humanities (fellow, 1994)
Workplaces *	Australian National University (anthropology) (academic, ?-2011) University of Sydney (anatomy) (academic, ?-1969) Sydney Morning Herald (newspaper) (journalist, 1957)

* Dates are approximate

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