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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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