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 Market forces. In Making connections: inland Australia, Indigenous trade and ceremonial routes. Arts Queensland, Brisbane.
2001 (4 with I. Metcalfe, J.M.B.Smith, M.Morwood) (eds) Faunal and floral migration and evolution in SE Asia-Australia. Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse, Netherlands.
2001 The requirements for human colonisation of Australia. In I. Metcalfe, J.M.B.Smith, M.Morwood & I. Davidson (eds) Faunal and floral migration and evolution in SE Asia-Australia. pp. 399-408. Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse, Netherlands.
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 First people becoming Australian. Anthropologie (Brno) 37/1, 125-141.
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 (3 with K. MacDonald and M. Ridges) Report on the 1997 field season of the Bayswater Archaeological Research Project, NSW Hunter Valley. Australian Archaeology 46, 37-38.
1997 "Pervye liudi,stavshie avstraliitsami". In Chelovek saseliaet planeru Zemli. Global'noe rasselenie gominid. (Ed. by A. A. Velichko and O. Soffer), Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
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.
1995 (1 editor with C. Lovell-Jones and R. Bancroft) Archaeologists and Aborigines Working Together. University of New England Press, Armidale.
1995 (2 with T. Sullivan) Archaeology in North West Queensland. In I. Davidson, C. Lovell-Jones and R. Bancroft (eds) Archaeologists and Aborigines Working Together. pp. 33-35. University of New England Press, Armidale.
1995 Introductions. In I. Davidson, C. Lovell-Jones and R. Bancroft (eds) Archaeologists and Aborigines Working Together. pp. ix-xi, 3-5, 47, 71. University of New England Press, Armidale.
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 (2 with Ros James) Sampling in Australian sites: a Selwyn case study. In Ian Johnson (ed.) Methods in the Mountains. pp. 13-20. Sydney University, Sydney.
1994 (3 with S. Gale and R. Drysdale) Late Quaternary environmental history and human occupation in arid Northeastern Australia: Cuckadoo 1 rockshelter. In D. Hawke (ed.) Proceedings, Volume 2. New Zealand Geographical Society Conference Series No 16. p. 808.
1993 (1 with S. Sutton and S. Gale) The human occupation of Cuckadoo 1 Rockshelter, Northwest Central Queensland. In M.A. Smith, M. Spriggs and B. Fankhauser (eds) Sahul In Review: Pleistocene archaeology in Australia, New Guinea and Melanesia. pp. 164-172. ANU, Canberra.
1993 Archaeology of the Selwyn Ranges, Northwest Central Queensland. In G. Burenhult (ed.) The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Humankind. People of the Stone Age. Hunter-gatherers and early farmers. pp. 210-1. Weldon Owen, Sydney.
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 Aboriginal living. In J.M.B. Smith (ed.) The Unique Continent pp. 91-100. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.
1992 Archaeologists and Aborigines. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 2,2, 247-58.
1992 Prehistoric Australian demography. In J.M.B. Smith (ed.) The Unique Continent pp. 101-110. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.
1991 Notes for a Code of Ethics for Australian Archaeologists working with Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Heritage. Australian Archaeology 32, 61-64.
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 Prehistoric Australian demography. In B. Meehan & N. White (eds) Hunter-Gatherer Demography Past and Present, pp. 41-58. Oceania Monographs , University of Sydney, Sydney.
1989 (2 with N.D.J.Cook & S.Sutton) Seeing red in Queensland. Nature 342, 487.
1989 Is intensification a condition of the fisher-hunter-gatherer way of life? Archaeology in Oceania 24, 75-78.
1988 (2 with M. Morwood) Current Queensland Archaeological Research: the University of New England. Queensland Archaeological Research 5, 166-168.
1988 Migration of peoples - the arrival of the Aborigines. The Australian Encyclopaedia, Vol. 1. pp.29-33. Australian Geographic, Sydney.
1988 The Naming of Parts: ethnography and the interpretation of Australian prehistory. In B. Meehan and R. Jones (eds.) Archaeology with Ethnography: an Australian perspective. pp. 17-32. Dept. Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU: Canberra.
1984 Letter to the Minister. Australian Archaeology 19, 140-142.
1983 Beating about the bush? Aspects of the history of Australian archaeology. Australian Archaeology 17, 136-144.
1983 On the edge of the Simpson. Recent additions to understanding of prehistoric artefact distributions in arid Australia. Australian Archaeology 17, 27-37.
1982 Archaeology on the New England Tablelands, a preliminary report. Armidale and District Historical Society Journal 25, 43-56.
1977 (2 with G.E. Connah & M.J. Rowland) Prehistoric settlement. In D.A.M. Lea, J.J.J. Pigram and L. Greenwood (eds.) An Atlas of New England. pp. 127-136. University of New England: Armidale.