Iain Davidson publications related to the archaeology of art

In press  (1 with N.D.J. Cook, M. Fischer, M. Ridges, J. Ross and S.A. Sutton) Archaeology in another country: exchange and symbols in North West Central Queensland.  In I. Macfarlane, M.-J. Mountain, and R. Paton (eds)  Many exchanges: Archaeology, history, community and the work of Isabel McBryde

In press  The archaeology of language origins: states of art.  In M. Christiansen and S. Kirby (eds) Language evolution: states of the art.  Oxford University Press.

2000      (2 with M. Ridges and D. Tucker) The organic environment of paintings on rock.  In G. Ward and C. Tuniz (eds) Advances in dating Australian rock-markings: papers from the first Australian Rock-picture dating workshop.  pp. 61-70.  Australian Rock Art Research Association, Melbourne.

2000      Archaeological Science means better archaeology, not more scientists. In G. Ward and C. Tuniz (eds) Advances in dating Australian rock-markings: papers from the first Australian Rock-picture dating workshop.  pp. 59-60.  Australian Rock Art Research Association, Melbourne.

1999      Sex, politics and religion.  Archaeology for a polite society.  Inaugural lecture, University of New England, Armidale.

1999      Symbols by Nature: animal frequencies in the Upper Palaeolithic of Western Europe and the nature of symbolic representation.  Archaeology in Oceania 34, 121-131.

1998      (1 with W. Noble) Two views on language origins.  Cambridge Archaeological Journal 8(1), 82-88

1997      The Power of Pictures.  In M. Conkey, O. Soffer, D. Stratmann  & N.G. Jablonski (eds) Beyond Art: Pleistocene image and symbol.  pp. 125-160.  Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 23.

1996      (2 with H.P.M. Winchester HPM and D.R. O'Brien)  Historical graffiti in northern Australia: evidence of European settlement and society in the Selwyn Range of northwest Queensland.  Australian Archaeology 43, 1-7.

1996      Comment.  Current Anthropology 37. 2, 204.

1995      Paintings, power, and the past.  Can there ever be an ethnoarchaeology of art?  Review of Morphy, H. 1991  Ancestral Connections: art and an Aboriginal system of knowledge.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.  Current Anthropology  36(5), 889-892.

1994      Comment on Taçon and Chippendale.  Cambridge Archaeological Journal 4, 234-237.

1992      There's no art.  To find the mind's construction.  In offence.  Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2, 52-57.

1990      (2 with N.D.J. Cook & S. Sutton) Why are so many ancient rock paintings red?  Australian Aboriginal Studies  1990 (1), 30-32.

1990      Bilzingsleben and early marking.  Rock Art Research.7,1,52-56.

1989      (1 with W. Noble) The archaeology of perception:  traces of depiction and language.  Current Anthropology  30, 125-157.

1989      (2 with N.D.J.Cook & S.Sutton) Seeing red in Queensland.  Nature 342, 487.

1989      (2 with W.Noble) On depiction and language.  Current Anthropology 30, 337-342.

1989      Freedom of information.  In H. Morphy (ed.) Animals into Art.  pp. 440 -456. Unwin Hyman, London.

1988      Comment.  Rock Art Research  3, 100-101.