Archaeology of Aboriginal Australia
I have broad-ranging interests on the deep and more recent archaeological history of Aboriginal Australia, focusing research mainly in the tropical regions of north Queensland and the Northern Territory (but having also undertaken numerous research projects in other parts of Australia).
- 2006 by B. DAVID, B. Barker & I. McNiven (eds). The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies . Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
- 2006 by H. Lourandos, B. DAVID, B. Barker & I. McNiven. An interview with Harry Lourandos. In B. DAVID, B. Barker & I. McNiven (eds), The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies , pp. 20-39. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
- 2006 by B. DAVID & T. Denham. Unpacking Australian prehistory. In B. DAVID, B. Barker & I. McNiven (eds), The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies , pp. 52-71. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
- 2006 by B. DAVID. Archaeology and the Dreaming: toward an archaeology of ontology. In I. Lilley (ed.), Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific islands , pp. 48-68. Blackwell, London.
- 2006 by I.J. McNiven, W.R. Dickinson, B. DAVID, M. Weisler, F. von Gnielinski, M. Carter & U. Zoppi. Mask Cave: red-slipped pottery and the Australian-Papuan settlement of Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait). Archaeology in Oceania 41: 49-81.
- 2005 by M. Langton & B. DAVID. Nature and culture in a forest park: William Ricketts and his sanctuary, Victoria. In J. Lydon & T. Ireland (eds), Object Lessons: archaeology and heritage in Australia , pp. 71-88. Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne.
- 2005 by B. DAVID. Sur les traces de l 'ancienne religion des Aborigènes d'Australie. Religions et Histoire 2: 36-43.
- 2005 by B. DAVID. Review of C. Smith and H.M Wobst's 'Indigenous Archaeologies: decolonizing theory and practice'. Archaeology in Oceania 40: 119-20.
- 2004 by B. DAVID, I. McNiven, R. Mitchell, M. Orr, S. Haberle, L. Brady & J. Crouch. Badu 15 and the Papuan-Austronesian settlement of Torres Strait. Archaeology in Oceania 39: 65-78.
- 2004 by B. DAVID. Intentionality, agency and an archaeology of choice. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 14(1): 67-71.
- 2004 by S. Haberle & B. DAVID. Climates of change: human dimensions of Holocene environmental change in low latitudes of the PEPII transect. Quaternary International 118-119: 165-179.
- 2004 by B. DAVID. Rock-art and the experienced landscape: the emergence of late Holocene symbolism in north-east Australia. In C. Chippindale and G. Nash (eds), The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art: Looking at Pictures in Place , pp. 153-181. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- 2004 by M. Langton & B. DAVID. Art as social momentum: coming into being in Yolŋu art. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 19(1): 47-60.
- 2003 by M. Langton & B. DAVID. William Ricketts Sanctuary, Victoria (Australia): sculpting nature and culture in a primitivist theme park. Journal of Material Culture 8(2): 145-168.
- 2002 by B. DAVID. Landscapes, Rock-art and the Dreaming: an archaeology of preunderstanding . Leicester University Press, London.
- 2002 by B. DAVID and M. Wilson (eds). Inscribed Landscapes: marking and making place . University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu.
- 2002 by P. Kershaw, B. DAVID, N. Tapper, D. Penny & J. Brown (eds). Bridging Wallace's Line: the Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the Australian-Southeast Asian Region . Advances in Geoecology 34, Catena Verlag GMBH, Reiskirchen.
- 2002 by B. DAVID. Hand Shelter (Ngarrabullgan), Cape York Peninsula, Australia: site report. The Artefact 25: 19-25.
- 2002 by B. DAVID, M. Langton & I. McNiven. Re-inventing the wheel: indigenous peoples and the master race in Philip Ruddock's 'wheel' comments. PAN - Philosophy, Activism, Nature 2: 31-46.
- 2002 by B. DAVID & M. Wilson. Spaces of resistance: graffiti and indigenous place markings in the early European contact period of northern Australia. In B. DAVID and M. Wilson (eds). Inscribed Landscapes: marking and making place , pp. 42-60. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu.
- 2002 by B. DAVID, P. Kershaw & N. Tapper. Bridging Wallace's Line: bringing home the Antipodes. In P. Kershaw, B. DAVID, N. Tapper, D. Penny & J. Brown (eds), Bridging Wallace's Line: the Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the Australian-Southeast Asian Region , pp. 1-4. Advances in Geoecology 34, Catena Verlag GMBH, Reiskirchen.
- 2002 by H. Lourandos & B. DAVID. Long-term archaeological and environmental trends: a comparison from late Pleistocene-Holocene Australia. In P. Kershaw, B. DAVID, N. Tapper, D. Penny & J. Brown (eds), Bridging Wallace's Line: the Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the Australian-Southeast Asian Region , pp. 307-338. Advances in Geoecology 34, Catena Verlag GMBH, Reiskirchen.
- 2002 by B. DAVID. Review of J. Doring's 'Gwion Gwion: secret and sacred pathways of the Ngarinyin Aboriginal people of Australia'. Rock Art Research 19: 140.
- 2001 by C. Rowe, B. DAVID, J. Stanisic & H. Lourandos. The helicinid land snail Pleuropoma extincta (Odhner, 1917) as an environmental indicator in archaeology. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46: 741-70.
- 2001 by B. DAVID, R.A. Armitage, M.W. Rowe & E. Lawson. Landscapes in transition? New radiocarbon dates on cave paintings from the Mitchell-Palmer limestone belt (northeastern Australia). American Indian Rock Art 27: 107-116.
- 2001 by R. Goodall & B. DAVID. Mineralogical and chemical analyses of an ochred rock, Ngarrabullgan Cave (N Qld, Australia). Rock Art Research 18: 58-60.
- 2001 by R. Gillespie & B. DAVID. The Importance, or Impotence, of Cuddie Springs. Australasian Science 22(9): 42-43.
- 2000 by B. DAVID. Painted Ell: further evidence for late Holocene abandonment of Ngarrabullgan (north Queensland). The Artefact 23: 35-40.
- 2000 by A.P. Kershaw, P.G. Quilty, B. DAVID, S. van Huet & A. McMinn. Palaeobiogeography of the Quaternary of Australasia. In A.J. Wright, G.C. Young, J.A. Talent & J.R. Laurie (eds), Palaeobiogeography of Australasian Faunas and Floras . Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 23, pp. 471-516, Canberra.
- 2000 by B. DAVID, C. Tuniz, E. Lawson, Q. Hua, G.E. Jacobsen, J. Head & M. Rowe. Dating charcoal drawings from Chillagoe, north Queensland. In G.K. Ward & C. Tuniz (eds), Advances in Dating Australian Rock-Markings: papers from the First Australian Rock-Picture Dating Workshop , pp. 84-89. Occasional AURA Publication 10, Australian Rock Art Research Association, Melbourne.
- 2000 by A. Watchman, B. DAVID, I.J. McNiven & J. Flood. Micro-archaeology of engraved and painted rock surface crusts at Yiwarlarlay (the Lightning Brothers site), Northern Territory, Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science 27: 315-325.
- 2000 by B. DAVID. Review of T. Richards' 'A Predictive Model of Aboriginal Archaeological Site Distribution in the Otway Range'. The Artefact 23: 41..
- 1999 by B. DAVID & M. Wilson. Re-reading the landscape: place and identity in NE Australia during the late Holocene. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 9 (2): 163-188.
- 1999 by B. DAVID, C. Tuniz, E. Lawson, Q. Hua, G.E. Jacobsen, J. Head & M. Rowe. New AMS determinations for Chillagoe rock art, Australia, and their implications for northern Australian prehistory. In D. Seglie (ed.), NEWS95 - International Rock Art Congress: North, East, West, South, 1995 IRAC. Proceedings , p. 49. Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica, Pinerolo.
- 1999 by B. DAVID, R.A. Armitage, M. Hyman, M. Rowe & E. Lawson. How old is north Queensland's rock-art? a review of the evidence, with new AMS determinations. Archaeology in Oceania 34 (3): 103-120.
- 1999 by B. DAVID, M. Lecole, H. Lourandos, A.J. Baglioni Jnr & J. Flood. Investigating relationships between motif forms, techniques and rock surfaces in north Australian rock art. Australian Archaeology 48: 16-22.
- 1999 by M.I. Bird, L.K. Ayliffe, L.K. Fifield, C.S.M. Turney, R.G. Cresswell, T.T. Barrows & B. DAVID. Radiocarbon dating of 'old' charcoal using a wet oxidation, stepped-combustion procedure. Radiocarbon 41 (2): 127-140.
- 1999 by I.J. McNiven, B. DAVID & H. Lourandos. Long-term Aboriginal use of western Victoria: reconsidering the significance of recent Pleistocene dates for the Grampians-Gariwerd region. Archaeology in Oceania 34 (2): 83-85.
- 1999 by B. DAVID & H. Lourandos. Landscape as mind: land use, cultural space and change in north Queensland prehistory. Quaternary International 59: 107-123.
- 1999 by B. DAVID. Review of A. Sagona's (ed.) 'Bruising the Red Earth'. Australian Archaeology 48: 64-65 .
- 1999 by B. DAVID, C. Tuniz, E. Lawson, Q. Hua, G.E. Jacobsen, J. Head & M. Rowe. New AMS determinations for Chillagoe rock art, Australia, and their implications for northern Australian prehistory. In D. Seglie (ed.), NEWS95 - International Rock Art Congress: North, East, West, South, 1995 IRAC. Proceedings , CD ROM. Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica, Pinerolo.
- 1999 by J. Brayer, H. Walt & B. DAVID. Quantitative Assessment of Rock Art Recording . Internet WWW document, at URL : http://www.rupestre.net/tracce/newport.html
- 1998 by B. DAVID, I. McNiven, V. Attenbrow, J. Flood & J. Collins. Of Lightning Brothers and White Cockatoos: dating the antiquity of signifying systems in the Northern Territory, Australia. In T. Murray (ed.), Archaeology of Aboriginal Australia: a Reader, pp. 290-304. Allen & Unwin, St. Leonards. Paper originally published in 1994 in Antiquity 68: 241-251.
- 1998 by B. DAVID (ed.). Ngarrabullgan: Geographical Investigations in Djungan Country, Cape York Peninsula. Monash Publications in Geography and Environmental Science 51. Monash University, Melbourne.
- 1998 by B. DAVID. Introduction: 'a mountain once seen never to be forgotten'. In B. DAVID (ed.), Ngarrabullgan: Geographical Investigations in Djungan Country, Cape York Peninsula. Monash Publications in Geography and Environmental Science 51, pp. 1-26. Monash University, Melbourne.
- 1998 by B. DAVID. The rock art. In B. DAVID (ed.), Ngarrabullgan: Geographical Investigations in Djungan Country, Cape York Peninsula. Monash Publications in Geography and Environmental Science 51, pp. 143-156. Monash University, Melbourne.
- 1998 by B. DAVID, I. McNiven, L. Bekessy, R. Bultitude, C. Clarkson, E. Lawson, C. Murray & C. Tuniz. More than 37,000 years of human occupation. In B. DAVID (ed.), Ngarrabullgan: Geographical Investigations in Djungan Country, Cape York Peninsula. Monash Publications in Geography and Environmental Science 51, pp. 157-178. Monash University, Melbourne.
- 1998 by B. DAVID & H. Lourandos. Rock art and socio-demography in northeastern Australian prehistory. World Archaeology 30 (2): 193-219.
- 1998 by R.A. Armitage, B. DAVID, M. Hyman, M.W. Rowe, C. Tuniz, E. Lawson, G. Jacobsen & Q. Hua. Radiocarbon determinations on Chillagoe rock paintings: small sample Accelerator Mass Spectrometry. Records of the Australian Museum 50 (3): 285-292.
- 1998 by B. DAVID. Rock art of southeast Cape York Peninsula: Bonney Glen Station. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 1(1): 127-136.
- 1997 by B. DAVID & H. Lourandos. 37,000 years and more in tropical Australia. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 63: 1-23.
- 1997 by B. DAVID, H. Walt, H. Lourandos, M. Rowe, J. Brayer & C. Tuniz. Ordering the rock paintings of the Mitchell-Palmer limestone zone (Australia) for AMS dating. The Artefact 20: 57-72.
- 1997 by R. Fullagar & B. DAVID. Investigating changing attitudes towards an Australian Aboriginal Dreaming mountain over >37,000 years of occupation via residue and use wear analyses of stone artefacts. CambridgeArchaeological Journal 7(1): 139-144.
- in press by B. DAVID. Archaeology of a Dreaming mountain in NE Australia. Waikato Radiocarbon Laboratory Newsletter 5.
- 2001 by R. Gillespie & B. DAVID. The Importance, or Impotence, of Cuddie Springs. Australasian Science 22(9): 42-43.
- 2000 by B. DAVID. Review of T. Richards' 'A Predictive Model of Aboriginal Archaeological Site Distribution in the Otway Range'. The Artefact 23: 41..
- 1999 by B. DAVID. Review of A. Sagona's (ed.) 'Bruising the Red Earth'. Australian Archaeology 48: 64-65.
- 1998 by B. DAVID, R.A. Armitage, M.Rowe, M. Hyman & E. Lawson. AMS Radiocarbon determinations for north-eastern Australian rock art: testing the regionalisation model of mid to late Holocene change. In M.S. de Abreu (ed.), Congresso International de Arte Rupestre: Atravessando Fronteiras. Programa Official, p. 33. University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real.
- 1997 by L. Hall & B. DAVID. A rock in time. Australian Geographic 46: 106-121.
- 1997. L. Hall & B. DAVID. A rock in time. Australian Geographic 46: 106-121.
- 1997. B. DAVID, R. Roberts, C. Tuniz, R. Jones & J. Head. New optical and radiocarbon dates from Ngarrabullgan cave, a Pleistocene archaeological site in Australia: implications for the comparability of time clocks and for the human colonisation of Australia. Antiquity 71: 183-188.
- 1996. B. DAVID, M. Barbetti, R. Bekessy, L. Bekessy, R. Bultitude, D. Butler, C. Clarkson, J. Clarkson, C. Conn, M. Dredge, T. Eyre, R. Fullagar, R. Goodall, L. Hall, J. Head, Q. Hua, G. Ingram, R. Jones, E. Lawson, H. Lourandos, T. Loy, C. Macrokanis, I. McNiven, C. Murray, C. Ogleby, M. Osborne, M. Pole, R. Roberts, M. Schulz, A. Spate, J. Stanisic, G. Summerhayes, C. Taylor, C. Tuniz & J. Whittier. The Ngarrabullgan Homeland Project: current research in Kuku Djungan country, north Queensland. Australian Archaeology 43: 32-36.
- 1996. B. DAVID. Earthwatch at Ngarrabullgan. AASV Bulletin 1996 (2): 2-5.
- 1995. B. DAVID & D. Chant. Rock Art and Regionalisation in North Queensland Prehistory. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 37 (2). Queensland Museum, Brisbane.
- 1995. C. Clarkson & B. DAVID. The antiquity of blades and points revisited: investigating the emergence of systematic blade production south of Arnhem Land, Australia. The Artefact 18: 22-44.
- 1995. V. Attenbrow, B. DAVID & J. Flood. Mennge-ya 1 and the origins of points: new insights into the appearance of points in the semi-arid zone of the Northern Territory. Archaeology in Oceania 30 (3): 105-120.
- 1995. B. DAVID, C. Tuniz, E. Lawson, Q. Hua, G.E. Jacobsen, J. Head & M. Rowe. AMS Results from Chillagoe, Australia, and their implications for Australian prehistory. In D. Seglie (ed.), News 95 - International Rock Art Congress , pp. 35-36. Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica, Pinerolo.
- 1995. C. Tuniz, D. Fink, M.A.C. Hotchkis, E.M. Lawson, G.E. Jacobsen, Q. Hua, A.M. Smith, N. Cole, B. DAVID, J. Campbell, L. Hatte, J. Head, M. Morwood, M. Nobbs, M. Rowe & A. Watchman. The Australian program on accelerator dating of Aboriginal rock art. In D. Seglie (ed.), News 95 - International Rock Art Congress , pp. 47. Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica, Pinerolo.
- 1995. B. DAVID. Review of M. Morwood & D. Hobbs (eds) 'Quinkan Prehistory'. Australian Archaeology 41: 63-64.
- 1995. V. Attenbrow, B. DAVID & J. Flood. Mennge-ya 1 and the origins of points: new insights into the appearance of points in the semi-arid zone of the Northern Territory. Archaeology in Oceania 30 (3): 105-120.
- 1995. B. DAVID. Kuku Djungan enters eco-tourism market. Land Rights Queensland 1995 (1): 12.
- 1994. B. DAVID. Holocene. The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia , pp. 473-474. A.A.P., Canberra.
- 1993. B. DAVID. Nurrabullgin Cave: preliminary results from a pre-37,000 year old rockshelter, north Queensland. Archaeology in Oceania 28 (1): 50-54. 1993. B. DAVID & L. Dagg. Two Caves. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33 (1): 143-162.
- 1992. B. DAVID. Initial radiocarbon determinations from Nurrabullgin. Australian Aboriginal Studies 1992 (1): 77-79.
- 1992. B. DAVID. Recent research in southeast Cape York Peninsula: Nurrabullgin and Mordor Cave. Queensland Archaeological Research 9: 50-53.
- 1992. J. Grainer, B. DAVID, R. Cribb, B. White and H. Kuhn. Nurrabullgin - 'a mountain, once seen, never to be forgotten'. Rock Art Research 9 (1): 74-77.
- 1992. I. McNiven, B. DAVID & J. Flood. Delamere 3: further excavations at Yiwarlarlay (Lightning Brothers site), Northern Territory. Australian Aboriginal Studies 1992 (1): 67-73.
- 1991. B. DAVID. Mitchell River Cave: a late Pleistocene-Holocene sequence from southeastern Cape York Peninsula. Australian Aboriginal Studies 1991 (1): 67-72.
- 1991. B. DAVID. Raiders of the lost axe: on macropods, phalangers, where and why - comments on Sutton's comment on Morwood and Trezise (and Pleistocene axes). Queensland Archaeological Research 8: 108-111.
- 1991. B. DAVID. Fern Cave, rock art and social formations: rock art regionalisation and demographic changes in southeastern Cape York Peninsula. Archaeology in Oceania 26: 41-57.
- 1991. B. DAVID, I. McNiven & J. Flood. Archaeological excavations at Yiwarlarlay 1: site report. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30 (3): 373-380.
- 1990. B. DAVID. New dates from Fern Cave, Cape York Peninsula. Rock Art Research 7 (1): 74-75.
- 1990. B. DAVID. Echidna's Rest, Chillagoe: a site report. QueenslandArchaeological Research 7: 73-94.
- 1990. B. DAVID, I. McNiven, J. Flood, V. Attenbrow & R. Frost. The Lightning Brother's Project: 1988 and 1989 field seasons. Australian Archaeology 31: 86-92.
- 1987. J. Flood, B. DAVID, J. Magee & B. English. Birrigai: a 21000 year old site in the A.C.T.. Archaeology in Oceania 22 (1): 9-26.
- 1986. B. DAVID. Some predictions concerning rates of change in Australian prehistory: theoretical thoughts on the Intensification question. In The Pleistocene Perspective . Precirculated papers presented at the World Archaeological Congress, Southampton.
- 1984. B. DAVID. Walkunder Arch Cave: a faunal report. Australian Archaeology 18 (1): 40-54.