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.
2002 The ‘Finished Artefact Fallacy’: Acheulean handaxes and language origins. In A. Wray (ed.)Transitions to language. pp. 180-203. Oxford University Press.
2001 (1 with W. Noble) Comment on Riel-Salvatore and Clark. Current Anthropology 45, 4, 460-461.
2001 (2 with Noble) Discovering the symbolic potential of communicative signs. In A. Nowell (Ed.) The archaeology of mind. pp. 187-200. International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor.
2000 Tools, language and the origins of culture (Abstract). http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/actes/_actes17.html
1999 Sex, politics and religion. Archaeology for a polite society. Inaugural lecture, University of New England, Armidale.
1999 The Game of the Name. Continuity and discontinuity in language origins. In B.J. King (ed) The origins of language : what nonhuman primates can tell you.. pp. 229-268. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, NM.
1998 (1 with W. Noble) Two views on language origins. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 8(1), 82-88
1997 (1 with W. Noble) Making up the mind. Review of Mithen, S. 1996 The prehistory of the mind. A search for the origins of art, religion and science. Thames and Hudson, London. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 7, 275-277.
1997 (2 with W. Noble) Reply to Mithen. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 7, 279-284.
1997 The evolution of language: assessing the evidence from non-human primates. Evolution of communication 1, 133-152.
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 W. Noble) Human evolution, language and mind: A psychological and archaeological inquiry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xiii + 273 pp..
1996 Comment. Current Anthropology 37. 2, 204.
1993 (1 with W. Noble) Evolution of hominid behaviour without language. In G. Burenhult (ed.) The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Humankind. The first humans. Human origins and history to 10 000 bc. p. 22. Harper, San Francisco..
1993 (1 with W. Noble) On the evolution of language. Comment on Burling. Current Anthropology.34, 165-6.
1993 (1 with W. Noble) Tools, humans and evolution: the relevance of the Upper Palaeolithic. In T. Ingold and K. Gibson (eds) Tools, Language and Intelligence: evolutionary implications. pp. 363-388. Cambridge University Press.
1993 (2 with W. Noble) The beginnings of language. In G. Burenhult (ed.) The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Humankind. The first humans. Human origins and history to 10 000 bc. p. 46. Harper, San Francisco.
1993 (2 with W. Noble) Tracing the origins of modern human behaviour: methodological pitfalls. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.12, 121-149.
1992 (1 with W. Noble) Language gap. Nature.355, 403-4.
1992 (1 with W. Noble) Why the first colonisation of the Australian region is the earliest evidence of modern human behaviour. Archaeology in Oceania 27, 135-142.
1992 (2 with W. Noble) Review of How Monkeys See the World by D.L. Cheney and R.M. Seyfarth. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.15,162.
1991 (2 with W. Noble) Evolving remembrance of times past and future. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14, 572.
1991 (2 with W.Noble) The origin of modern human behaviour: language and its archaeological record. Man: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 26, 223-253.
1991 The archaeology of language origins - a review. Antiquity 65, 39-48.
1990 (1 with W. Noble) Review of What is an Animal? by Tim Ingold (ed.), Unwin Hyman, London 1988. Australian Archaeology 30, 105-108.
1990 (1 with W.Noble) Tools, language, and modern humans: was the emergence of language the biggest change in Homo sapiens? In L. Freedman (ed.) Is Our Future Limited by Our Past pp. 321-322. University of Western Australia, Perth.
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 W.Noble) On depiction and language. Current Anthropology 30, 337-342.
1988 Comment. Rock Art Research 3, 100-101.