Wardaman Archaeology Project
Since 1988 we have been researching, together with an international team, the archaeology and history of Wardaman land use and rock art, Victoria River region, northern Australia. Our aim has been to better understand cultural and historical contexts of rock art production in Wardaman country, focusing on their social and, for the ethnographic period at least, ontological dimensions.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, 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.
- 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.
- 1995 by 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 by 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 by B. DAVID, J. Collins, B. Barker, J. Flood & R. Gunn. Archaeological research in Wardaman country, Northern Territory: the Lightning Brothers Project 1990-91 field seasons. Australian Archaeology 41: 1-8.
- 1994 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. Antiquity 68: 241-251.
- 1994 by J. Flood & B. DAVID. Traditional systems of encoding meaning in Wardaman rock art, Northern Territory, Australia. The Artefact 17: 6-22.
- 1994 by B. DAVID & J. Flood. The Lightning Brothers: Investigating Rock Art and the Dreaming. Oz Arts Magazine 11: 117-121.
- 1992 by B. DAVID, D. Chant & J. Flood. Jalijbang 2 and the distribution of pecked faces in Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 32(1): 61-77.
- 1992 by J. Flood, B. DAVID & R. Frost. Dreaming into art: Aboriginal interpretations of rock engravings - Yingalarri, Northern Territory, Australia. In M. Morwood and D.R. Hobbs (eds.) Rock Art and Ethnography in Australia , pp. 33-38. Occasional AURA Publication 5, Australian Rock Art Research Association, Melbourne.
- 1992 by R. Frost, B. DAVID & J. Flood. Pictures in transition: discussing the interaction of visual forms and symbolic contents in Wardaman rock pictures. In M. Morwood and D.R. Hobbs (eds.) Rock Art and Ethnography in Australia , pp. 27-32. Occasional AURA Publication 5, Australian Rock Art Research Association, Melbourne.
- 1992 by 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 by B. DAVID & J. Flood. On form and meaning in rock art research. Rock Art Research 8 (2): 130-131.
- 1991 by B. DAVID, I. McNiven & J. Flood. Archaeological excavations at Yiwarlarlay 1: site report. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30 (3): 373-380.
- 1990 by B. DAVID, M. David, J. Flood & R. Frost. Rock paintings of the Yingalarri region: preliminary results and implications for an archaeology of inter-regional relations in northern Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28 (2): 443-462.
- 1990 by 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.
- 1990 by B. DAVID, I. McNiven, J. Flood & R. Frost. Yiwarlarlay 1: archaeological excavations at the Lightning Brothers site, Delamere station, Northern Territory. Archaeology in Oceania 25 (2): 79-84.