Past research projects
Radiocarbon dating Vanuatu's rock-art
- 2004 by U. Zoppi,
B. DAVID, M. Wilson, Q. Hua, A. Williams & A. Watchman. AMS
radiocarbon dating of micro samples from the rock paintings of Malakula
(Vanuatu). In T. Higham, C.B. Ramsey & C. Owen (eds),Radiocarbon
and Archaeology, pp. 73-82. Oxford University School of
Archaeology Monograph 62, Oxford.
- 2000 by M.
Wilson, J. Sanhampath, P.D. Senembe, B. DAVID, N. Hall &
M. Abong. 'Tufala kev blong devil': people and spirits in
north west Malakula, Vanuatu - implications for management. Conservation
and Management of Archaeological Sites 4: 151-166.
High altitude cultural innovations in northern
New Mexico (southern Rockies), USA
- 2004 by B. DAVID,
P. Hogan, H. Walt, I. McNiven & E. Lawson. Rio de las Vacas
Shelter and the distribution of Sudden and San Rafael Side-notched
points: high country cultural links during the Late Archaic in the
American Southwest. The Artefact 27: 113-122.
Method and theory in archaeology

- 2006 by B. DAVID,
B. Barker & I. McNiven (eds). The Social Archaeology
of Australian Indigenous Societies. Aboriginal Studies
Press, Canberra.
- 2006 by I.J. McNiven, B.
DAVID & B. Barker. The social archaeology of Indigenous Australia.
In B. David, B. Barker & I. McNiven (eds), The
Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies,
pp. 2-19. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
- 2006
by B. DAVID & T. Denham. Unpacking Australian
pre
history. 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.
- 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, J. Crouch & U. Zoppi. Historicizing the spiritual:bu
shell arrangements on the island of Badu, Torres Strait.Cambridge
Archaeological Journal 15(1): 71-91.
- 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.
- 2005 by
B. DAVID. Rock art and oral traditions in Torres Strait. The
Courier Mail 3 May, p. Headst@rt 3.
-
2005 by B. DAVID. Review of T. Heyd and J. Clegg's
Aesthetics and Rock Art . Proceedings of
the Prehistoric Society . Internet WWW document, at URL :
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/index.html
- 2004 by U. Zoppi, B. DAVID, M. Wilson, Q. Hua, A. Williams
& A. Watchman. AMS radiocarbon dating of micro samples from
the rock paintings of Malakula (Vanuatu). In T. Higham, C.B. Ramsey
& C. Owen (eds),Radiocarbon and Archaeology,
pp. 73-82. Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph 62,
Oxford.
- 2004 by B. DAVID. Bruno David's
tips to see the invisible. In H. Burke and C. Smith, The
Archaeologist's Field Handbook, pp. 224-225. Allen
& Unwin, Crows Nest.
- 2004 by B. DAVID.
Intentionality, agency and an archaeology of choice.Cambridge
Archaeological Journal 14(1): 67-71.
- 2004
by B. DAVID, I. McNiven, L. Manas, J. Manas, S. Savage, J. Crouch,
G. Neliman & L. Brady. Goba of Mua: archaeology working with
oral tradition.Antiquity 78: 158-172.
- 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 B. DAVID. Hunting for patterns, gathering the data.Cambridge
Archaeological Journal 13(1): 139-142.
- 2003
by B. DAVID, I. McNiven & J. Brayer. Colourful past. British
Archaeology 73: 14-15.
- 2002 by
B. DAVID. Landscapes, Rock-art and the Dreaming: an archaeology
of preunderstanding. Leicester University Press, London.
- 2002 by I. McNiven, B. DAVID & L. Brady. Torres
Strait rock-art: an enhanced perspective. Australian Aboriginal
Studies 2002 (2): 69-74.
- 2002 by
M. Wilson & B. DAVID. Introduction. In B. David and M. Wilson
(eds), Inscribed Landscapes: marking and making place,
pp. 1-9. 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.L. Pearson's 'Shamanism and the Ancient Mind:
a cognitive approach to archaeology'. Oceania
73(1): 81-82.
- 2002 by B. DAVID. Making sense:
embodying the past. CambridgeArchaeological Journal
12: 267-268.
- 2001 by B. DAVID, J. Brayer,
I. McNiven & Alan Watchman. Why digital enhancement of rock
paintings works: rescaling and saturating colours.Antiquity
75: 781-792.
- 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 B. DAVID. An agency of
choice? Cambridge Archaeological Journal 11(2):
270-271.
- 2000 by I. McNiven, B. DAVID &
J. Brayer. Digital enhancement of Torres Strait rock-art. Antiquity
74: 759-760.
- 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.
- 2000 by B. DAVID.
Review of J. Elkins' 'On Pictures and the Words That Fail
Them'. Rock Art Research 17 (2): 136.
- 1999 by B. DAVID & M. Wilson. Re-reading the
landscape: place and identity in NE Australia during the late Holocene.
CambridgeArchaeological Journal 9 (2): 163-188.
- 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. Whiter Landscapes? The rise and fall of a concept.Cambridge
Archaeological Journal 9 (2): 294-295.
- 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 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 H. Lourandos &
B. DAVID. Comparing long-term archaeological and environmental trends:
north Queensland, arid and semiarid Australia. The Artefact
21: 105-114.
- 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
J. Brayer, H. Walt & B. DAVID. A quantitative assessment
of freehand drawing and some suggestions for its imporvement as a
rock art recording method. In M.S. de Abreu (ed.), Congresso
International de Arte Rupestre: Atravessando Fronteiras. Programa
Official, p. 30. University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto
Douro, Vila Real.
- 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 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.
- 1997 by B. DAVID. Review of P. Ucko's (ed.) 'Theory
in Archaeology: a World Perspective'. Proceedings of
the Prehistoric Society 63: 421-422.
- 1997
by B. DAVID. Review of C. Carr and J.E. Neitzel's (eds) 'Style,
Society, and Person: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives'.Australian
Archaeology 45: 65-66.
- 1996 by
B. DAVID. The 1984 Chillagoe surveys. QueenslandArchaeological
Research 10: 36-53.
- 1996. J. Hall,
J. Pragnall & B. DAVID. The Tower Mill: an archaeological
excavation of Queensland's oldest extant building. Queensland
Archaeological Research 10: 1-16. ·
- 1996.
B. DAVID. Review of M. Shanks & C. Tilley's 'Reconstructing
the Past'. Australian Archaeology 42: 69-70. ·
- 1996. R. Goodall, B. DAVID & J.P. Bartley. Non-destructive
techniques for the analysis and characterisation of pigments from
archaeological sites: the case of Fern Cave. In S. Ulm, I. Lilley
& A. Ross (eds), Australian Archaeology '95: Proceedings
of the 1995 Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference.
Tempus 6: 183-187. University of Queensland, Brisbane. ·
- 1995. B. DAVID & D. Chant. Rock Art and Regionalisation
in North Queensland Prehistory. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum
37 (2). Queensland Museum, Brisbane. ·
- 1995.
R. Goodall, J.P. Bartley, G. Kimber, R.L. Frost & B. DAVID.
Photoacoustic spectroscopy of ochre of archaeological significance.
In R. Armstrong (ed.), Proceedings of 1st Australian Conference on
Vibrational Spectroscopy, pp. 67-68. University of Sydney, Sydney.
·
- 1995. B. DAVID, A. Watchman, R. Goodall
& E. Clayton. The Maytown ochre source. Memoirs of the Queensland
Museum 38 (2): 441-445. ·
- 1995. B. DAVID.
Review of M. Lorblanchet & P. Bahn's 'Rock Art Studies:
the Post-Stylistic Era, or, Where Do We Go From Here'. Rock Art
Research 12 (1): 52-54. ·
- 1995. B. DAVID
& C. Tuniz. Dating an old Aboriginal site. AINSE Activities
10: 8. ·
- 1995. B. DAVID. Review of C. Tilley's
(ed.) 'Reading Material Culture'. Australian Archaeology
40: 71. ·
- 1995. R. Goodall, B. DAVID &
J. Bartley. Non-destructive techniques for the analysis and provenancing
of pigments from archaeological sites: the case of Fern Cave. Abstract
published in Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference
Program and Abstracts, pp. 28. The University of Queensland, Brisbane.
·
- 1994. 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. Antiquity 68: 241-251. ·
- 1993.
B. DAVID, E. Clayton & L. Little. Initial results of PIXE
analysis on northern Australian ochres. Australian Archaeology 36:
50-57. ·
- 1992. B. DAVID, R. Bird, R. Fullagar
& L. Little. Glassy obsidian artefacts from north Queensland:
the Nolan's Creek source and some archaeological occurrences.
The Artefact 15: 25-30. ·
- 1991. B. DAVID
& J. Stanisic. Land snails from Australian archaeological
sites: initial results from Echidna's Rest (north Queensland).
The Artefact 14: 19-24. ·
- 1991. B. DAVID.
Review of M. Shanks & C. Tilley's 'Social Theory
and Archaeology'. Australian Archaeology 32: 70-71. ·
- 1990. B. DAVID. How was this bone burnt? In S. Solomon,
I. Davidson & D. Watson (eds.) Problem Solving in Taphonomy.
Tempus 2: 65-79. ·
- 1990. S. Solomon &
B. DAVID. Middle Range Theory and actualistic studies: bones and
dingoes in Australian Archaeology. In S. Solomon, I. Davidson &
D. Watson (eds.) Problem Solving in Taphonomy. Tempus 2: 234-56.·
- 1989. B. DAVID. Review of I. Hodder's 'Reading
the past'. Australian Archaeology 28: 155-8. ·
- 1984. B. DAVID. Man [sic] versus Dingo. Cultural Resource
Management Monograph 5. Department of Community Services, Brisbane.
Rock art dating
- 2004 by U. Zoppi, B. DAVID, M. Wilson, Q. Hua, A. Williams
& A. Watchman. AMS radiocarbon dating of micro samples from
the rock paintings of Malakula (Vanuatu). In T. Higham, C.B. Ramsey
& C. Owen (eds),Radiocarbon and Archaeology,
pp. 73-82. Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph 62,
Oxford.
- 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 B. DAVID, I. McNiven, L. Manas, J. Manas, S. Savage,
J. Crouch, G. Neliman & L. Brady. Goba of Mua: archaeology
working with oral tradition.Antiquity 78: 158-172.
- 2002 by B. DAVID. Landscapes, Rock-art and
the Dreaming: an archaeology of preunderstanding. Leicester
University Press, London.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 & H. Lourandos.
Landscape as mind: land use, cultural space and change in north Queensland
prehistory. Quaternary International 59: 107-123.
- 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.
- 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, 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.
- 1998 by B. DAVID, R.A. Armitage, M. Rowe, M. Hyman &
E. Lawson. AMS radiocarbon determinations for northeastern Australian
rock art: testing the regionalisation model of mid to late Holocene
change. In M.S. de Abreu (ed.), Atravessando-Fronteiras:
Congresso Internacional de Arte Rupestre-International Rock Art Congress,
1998 , CD
ROM: file///D|IRAC/ingles/simposios/contents/simp5/esq_frames.html.
Unidade de Arqueologia da UTAD, Vila Real.
- 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.
- 1995
by B. DAVID & D. Chant. Rock Art and Regionalisation
in North Queensland Prehistory. Memoirs of the
Queensland Museum 37 (2). Queensland Museum, Brisbane.
- 1995 by B. DAVID & C. Tuniz. Dating an old Aboriginal
site. AINSE Activities 10: 8.
- 1995
by B. DAVID. Rock art and Australian prehistory. Current
Archaeology 144: 476-480.
- 1995
by 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
by 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 & D. Chant. Rock Art
and Regionalisation in North Queensland Prehistory. Memoirs of the
Queensland Museum 37 (2). Queensland Museum, Brisbane.
Dry Rainforests of SE Cape York: long- and
short-term cultural trends
- 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.
- 2002 by B. DAVID. Landscapes, Rock-art and the
Dreaming: an archaeology of preunderstanding. Leicester
University Press, London.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 & H. Lourandos. Landscape as mind: land use,
cultural space and change in north Queensland prehistory. Quaternary
International 59: 107-123.
- 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.
- 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, 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.
- 1998 by B. DAVID, R.A. Armitage, M. Rowe, M. Hyman &
E. Lawson. AMS radiocarbon determinations for northeastern Australian
rock art: testing the regionalisation model of mid to late Holocene
change. In M.S. de Abreu (ed.), Atravessando-Fronteiras:
Congresso Internacional de Arte Rupestre-International Rock Art Congress,
1998 , CD
ROM: file///D|IRAC/ingles/simposios/contents/simp5/esq_frames.html.
Unidade de Arqueologia da UTAD, Vila Real.
- 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 L. Hall & B. DAVID. A rock in time. Australian
Geographic 46: 106-121.
- 1996 by
B. DAVID. The 1984 Chillagoe surveys. QueenslandArchaeological
Research 10: 36-53.
- 1995 by B.
DAVID & D. Chant. Rock Art and Regionalisation
in North Queensland Prehistory. Memoirs of the
Queensland Museum 37 (2). Queensland Museum, Brisbane.
- 1994. B. DAVID. Holocene. The Encyclopaedia
of Aboriginal Australia, pp. 473-474. A.A.P., Canberra.
- 1992. N. Cole & B. DAVID. 'Curious Drawings'
at Cape York: a summary of rock art investigation in the Cape York
Peninsula region since the 1820s and a comparison of some regional
traditions. Rock Art Research 9(1): 3-26.
- 1992. B. DAVID. Analysing space: investigating context
and meaning in the rock paintings of the Chillagoe-Mungana limestone
belt of north Queensland. In J. McDonald and I.P. Haskovec (eds.)
State of the Art: Regional Rock Art Studies in Australia
and Melanesia, pp. 159-163. Occasional AURA Publication
#6, Australian Rock Art Research Association, Melbourne.
Rock Art Regionalisation and Demographic Trends
in Prehistory
- 2006 by B. DAVID, B. Barker & I. McNiven (eds).
The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies
. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
- 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.
- 2002 by B. DAVID. Landscapes,
Rock-art and the Dreaming: an archaeology of preunderstanding.
Leicester University Press, London.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 2000 by B. DAVID. Painted Ell: further evidence for late
Holocene abandonment of Ngarrabullgan (north Queensland). The
Artefact 23: 35-40.
- 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.
- 1999 by B. DAVID & M. Wilson. Re-reading the
landscape: place and identity in NE Australia during the late Holocene.
CambridgeArchaeological 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 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, 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.
- 1998
by H. Lourandos & B. DAVID. Comparing long-term archaeological
and environmental trends: north Queensland, arid and semiarid Australia.
The Artefact 21: 105-114.
- 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, 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.
- 1998 by B. DAVID, R.A. Armitage, M. Rowe, M. Hyman &
E. Lawson. AMS radiocarbon determinations for northeastern Australian
rock art: testing the regionalisation model of mid to late Holocene
change. In M.S. de Abreu (ed.), Atravessando-Fronteiras:
Congresso Internacional de Arte Rupestre-International Rock Art Congress,
1998 , CD
ROM: file///D|IRAC/ingles/simposios/contents/simp5/esq_frames.html.
Unidade de Arqueologia da UTAD, Vila Real.
- 1997
by B. DAVID & H. Lourandos. 37,000 years and more in tropical
Australia. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
63: 1-23.
- 1995 by B. DAVID. Rock art and Australian
prehistory. Current Archaeology 144: 476-480.
- 1995 by 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 by B. DAVID. Review of M. Morwood & D.
Hobbs (eds) 'Quinkan Prehistory'. Australian Archaeology
41: 63-64.
- 1995. B. DAVID & D. Chant.
Rock Art and Regionalisation in North Queensland Prehistory.
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 37 (2). Queensland Museum,
Brisbane.
Sourcing and Characterisation Studies, Northern
Australia
- 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.
- 2004 by I. McNiven & B. DAVID. Torres Strait rock-art
and ochre sources: an overview. In I. McNiven & M. Quinnell
(eds), Torres Strait: archaeology and material culture.
Special Issue of Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural
Heritage Series 3(1): 209-225.
- 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.
- 1999 by B.
DAVID. Review of A. Sagona's (ed.) 'Bruising the Red Earth'.Australian
Archaeology 48: 64-65.
- 1996. R. Goodall, B. DAVID & J.P. Bartley. Non-destructive
techniques for the analysis and characterisation of pigments from
archaeological sites: the case of Fern Cave. In S. Ulm, I. Lilley
& A. Ross (eds), Australian Archaeology '95:
Proceedings of the 1995 Australian Archaeological Association Annual
Conference. Tempus 6: 183-187. University of Queensland,
Brisbane.
- 1995. R. Goodall, J.P. Bartley, G.
Kimber, R.L. Frost & B. DAVID. Photoacoustic spectroscopy
of ochre of archaeological significance. In R. Armstrong (ed.), Proceedings
of 1st Australian Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy,
pp. 67-68. University of Sydney, Sydney.
- 1995.
B. DAVID, A. Watchman, R. Goodall & E. Clayton. The Maytown
ochre source. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum
38 (2): 441-445.
- 1993. B. DAVID, E. Clayton
& L. Little. Initial results of PIXE analysis on northern
Australian ochres. Australian Archaeology 36:
50-57.
- 1992. B. DAVID, R. Bird, R. Fullagar
& L. Little. Glassy obsidian artefacts from north Queensland:
the Nolan's Creek source and some archaeological occurrences.
The Artefact 15: 25-30.
Taphonomic and Palaeoenvironmental Research

- 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.
- 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, 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 P. Kershaw,
B. DAVID, N. Tapper, D. Penny & J. Brown. Preface. 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. i-vi. Advances in Geoecology 34, Catena Verlag GMBH, Reiskirchen.
- 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 R. Gillespie & B. DAVID. The Importance, or Impotence,
of Cuddie Springs. Australasian Science 22(9):
42-43.
- 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.
- 1998
by H. Lourandos & B. DAVID. Comparing long-term archaeological
and environmental trends: north Queensland, arid and semiarid Australia.
The Artefact 21: 105-114.
- 1991
by 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 by B. DAVID & J. Stanisic.
Land snails from Australian archaeological sites: initial results
from Echidna's Rest (north Queensland). The Artefact
14: 19-24.
- 1990. B. DAVID. How was this bone
burnt? In S. Solomon, I. Davidson & D. Watson (eds.) Problem
Solving in Taphonomy. Tempus 2: 65-79.
- 1990.
S. Solomon & B. DAVID. Middle Range Theory and actualistic
studies: bones and dingoes in Australian Archaeology. In S. Solomon,
I. Davidson & D. Watson (eds.) Problem Solving
in Taphonomy. Tempus 2: 234-56.
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