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.
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.