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Dr Bruno David - Researcher Profile

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School of Geography & Environmental Science
Faculty of Arts, Clayton

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The past as a present

Anthropological archaeology, as practiced by Dr Bruno David, is as much about the present as it is about the past. In interpreting artefacts, artworks, people’s stories and histories, Bruno understands that what is at stake is not just the past, but what it means to people and cultures alive today. For Bruno, archaeological research is both scientific and personal, and needs to be sensitive to scientific excellence, cultural values and ethical integrity.

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Bruno views each archaeological project as a partnership. It is a partnership between the past and the present, between science and culture, and between himself and the communities he works alongside.

"My work is not about just jumping back into the past, but rather about looking at ways that the past is meaningful to people today," Bruno says.

"So researching the history of peoples and communities needs to start from the present. Even if we are looking at something that is 40,000 years old, we don't just go straight to those old sites; we start with conversations about why and how we should look at these sites today.

"As a social scientist, I know that these places are not just scientific sites, but belong to and are deeply connected with the people who are the descendents of those places."

This guiding principle has been with Bruno throughout much of his career, which now spans some 30 years. Prior to joining Monash University in the 1990s, he worked with the University of Queensland and with an Aboriginal organisation in Cape York Peninsula, northern Australia. He has authored and co-authored more than half a dozen books, and worked on archaeological projects throughout Australia, the Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In 2007 he was awarded The Bruce Veitch Award for Excellence in Indigenous Engagement by Australia’s peak archaeology bodies.

Bruno approaches each project with a focus on community, and says his role is to help communities learn more about their own history by bringing specialist archaeological skills to communities who request such modes of historical research.

This is certainly the case with his current collaboration with the Jawoyn Aboriginal community in western Arnhem Land (http://connectingcountry.arts.monash.edu.au/).

Bruno, together with a distinguished team of archaeological experts – including Professor Jean-Michel Geneste, director of the Chauvet Cave International Research Program in France, and Professor Richard Roberts, who led the dating of the famous “Hobbit” in Flores – is working to support cultural eco-tourism ventures.

At the same time, they will help the Jawoyn Association uncover information about their remote past, hidden underneath the ground of the spectacular, but near-inaccessible, plateau of Arnhem Land.

"The community approached us saying they wanted information about their deep past, but within a notion of connecting the past with the present," Bruno says.

"During a time of rapid change they wanted to make sure the current younger generations continue to learn about their own history."

Bruno is also presently working with a network of communities along the south coast of Papua New Guinea, documenting their history and investigating the lineage of the descendents of Lapita peoples – the famed pottery makers whose works first appeared more than 3000 years ago. The project includes study of the ancient long distance maritime hiri trade which once dominated the region at Australia’s eastern doorstep, and which may have brought seafaring Melanesians in direct contact with Indigenous Australians previously thought to have been isolated.

Having spent decades encountering the rich diversity of human experience, culture and history, Bruno believes society should not be afraid to celebrate its differences.

"We should recognise that human society is a multiplicity and give voice and acknowledgment to this diversity by embracing it – otherwise we are always imposing ourselves onto the world, only accepting things in the way that they are similar to ourselves," Bruno says.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY: Institution: University of Queensland, St Luca, Brisbane; Year awarded: 1994

MA: Institution: Australian National University, ACT, Canberra; Year awarded: 1987

BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONS): Institution: Australian National University, ACT, Canberrra; Year awarded: 1983

Publications

Books

David, B. (ed), 2010, Handbook of Landscape Archaeology, Left Coast Press, United States.

David, B., Manas, L., Quinnell, M. (eds), 2008, Gelam's homeland: Cultural and natural history on the island of Mua, Torres Strait, Queensland Museum, Australia.

David, B., Barker, B., McNiven, I.J. (eds), 2006, The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra ACT Australia.

David, B., 2002, Landscapes, Rock-Art and the Dreaming: An Archaeology of Preunderstanding, Leicester University Press, London UK.

David, B. (ed), 1998, Ngarrabullgan: Geographical Investigations in Djungan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Lourandos, H., David, B., Roche, N., Rowe, C., Holden, A., Clarke, S., 2012, Hay Cave: A 30,000 year cultural sequence from the Mitchell-Palmer limestone zone, north Queensland (Australia), in Peopled Landscapes: Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes, eds Simon G. Haberle & Bruno David, ANU ePress, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 27-63.

Barker, B., Lamb, L., David, B., Korokai, K., Bowman, J., Kuaso, A., 2012, Otoia, ancestral village of the Kerewo: Archaeological excavations at a men's longhouse (dubu daima) on the island of Goaribari (Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea) and implications for the historical emergence of regional polities, in Peopled Landscapes: Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes, eds Simon Haberle and Bruno David, ANU ePress, Canberra ACT, Australia, pp. 157-176.

David, B., Haberle, S.G., Walker, D., 2012, Peopled landscapes: The impact of Peter Kershaw on Australian Quaternary science, in Peopled Landscapes (Terra Australis 34): Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes, eds Simon G. Haberle & Bruno David, ANU ePress, Canberra, ACT, Australia, pp. 3-23.

McNiven, I.J., David, B., Aplin, K., Mialanes, J., Asmussen, B., Ulm, S., Faulkner, P., Rowe, C., Richards, T.H., 2012, Terrestrial engagements by terminal Lapita maritime specialists on the southern Papuan coast, in Peopled Landscapes: Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes, eds Simon G Haberle and Bruno David, ANU ePress, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 119-154.

David, B., 2011, Historicizing cosmologies in Australia and Papua New Guinea, in Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Rirual and Religion, eds Timothy Insoll, Oxford University Press, United States, pp. 482-504.

Nakata, M., David, B., 2010, Archaeological practice at the cultural interface, in Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology, eds Jane Lydon, Uzma Z Rizvi, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, California, pp. 429-443.

David, B., Thomas, J., 2008, Landscape Archaeology: Introduction, in Handbook of Landscape Archaeology, eds Bruno David and Julian Thomas, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek California USA, pp. 27-43.

David, B., Pivoru, M., Pivoru, W., Green, M., Barker, B., Weiner, J.F., Simala, D., Kokents, T., Araho, L., Dop, J., 2008, Living landscapes of the dead: archaeology of the afterworld among the Rumu of Papua New Guinea, in Handbook of Landscape Archaeology, eds Bruno David and Julian Thomas, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek California USA, pp. 158-166.

Langton, M.L., David, B., 2007, Talking country: the concept of art in Yolngu culture, in One Sun one Moon: Aboriginal Art in Australia, eds H Perkins Mark West and Theresa Willsteed, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 67-72.

David, B., 2006, Archaeology and the dreaming: toward an archaeology of ontology, in Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands, eds Ian Lilley, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford UK, pp. 48-68.

David, B., 2006, Indigenous rights and the mutability of cultures: tradition change and the politics of recognition, in Boundary Writing: An Exploration of Race, Culture, and Gender Binaries in Contemporary Australia, eds Lynette Russell, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu USA, pp. 122-148.

McNiven, I.J., David, B., Barker, B., 2006, The social archaeology of indigenous Australia, in The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies, eds Bruno David, Bryce Barker and Ian J McNiven, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 2-19.

David, B., Denham, T.P., 2006, Unpacking Australian prehistory, in The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies, eds Bruno David, Bryce Barker and Ian J McNiven, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 52-71.

Langton, M., David, B., 2005, Nature and culture in a forest park: William Ricketts and his sanctuary, Victoria, in Object Lessons: Archaeology and Heritage in Australia, eds Jane Lydon and Tracy Ireland, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 71-88.

Zoppi, U., David, B., Wilson, M., Hua, Q., Williams, A., Watchman, A., 2004, AMS radiocarbon dating of micro samples from the rock paintings of Malakula (Vanuatu), in Radiocarbon and Archaeology, eds Tom Higham, Christopher Bronk Ramsey and Clare Owen, Oxford Unviersity School of Archaeology, Oxford UK, pp. 73-82.

David, B., 2004, Rock-art and the experienced landscape: the emergence of late Holocene symbolism in north-east Australia, in The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art: Looking at Pictures in Place, eds Christopher Chippindale and George Nash, Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK, pp. 153-181.

David, B., Kershaw, A.P., Tapper, N.J., 2002, Bridging Wallace's Line: bringing home the Antipodes, in Bridging Wallace's Line: the environmental and cultural history and dynamics of the Australian-Southeast Asian region, eds Peter Kershaw, Bruno David, Nigel Tapper, Dan Penny and Jonathan Brown, Catena Verlag GMBH, Reiskirchen Germany, pp. 1-4.

Wilson, M.L., David, B., 2002, Introduction, in Inscribed Landscapes: marking and making place, eds Bruno David and Meredith Wilson, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu USA, pp. 1-9.

Lourandos, H., David, B., 2002, Long-term archaeological and environmental trends: a comparison from late Pleistocene-Holocene Australia, in Bridging Wallace's Line: the environmental and cultural history and dynamics of the Australian-Southeast Asian region, eds Peter Kershaw, Bruno David, Nigel Tapper, Dan Penny and Jonathan Brown, Catena Verlag GMBH, Reiskirchen Germany, pp. 30-338.

David, B., Wilson, M., 2002, Spaces of resistance: graffiti and indigenous place markings in the early European contact period of northern Australia, in Inscribed Landscapes: marking and making place, eds Burno David and Meredith Wilson, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu USA, pp. 42-60.

David, B., Tuniz, C., Lawson, E., Hua, Q., Jacobsen, G., Head, J.G., Rowe, M., 2000, Dating Charcoal Drawings from Chillagoe, North Queensland, in Advances in Dating Australian Rock-Markings:, Archaeological Publications, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 84-89.

David, B., 1998, Cultural Landscapes: the Rock Art, in Ngarrabullgan: Geographical Investigations in Djungan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 143-156.

David, B., 1998, Introduction: A Mountain Once seen Never to be Forgotten, in Ngarrabullgan: Geographical Investigations in Djungan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 1-26.

David, B., 1998, More than 37,000 years of Aboriginal Occupation, in Ngarrabullgan: Geographical Investigations in Djungan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 157-178.

David, B., McNiven, I., Attenbrow, V., Flood, J., Collins, J., 1998, Of Lightning Brothers and White Cockatoos: Dating the Antiquity of Signifying Systems in the Northern Territory, Australia, in Archaeology of Aboriginal Australia, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards NSW, pp. 290-304.

Journal Articles

Petchey, F., Ulm, S., David, B., McNiven, I.J., Asmussen, B., Tomkins, H., Richards, T., Rowe, C., Leavesley, M., Mandui, H., Stanisic, J., 2012, 14C Marine Reservoir Variability in Herbivores and Deposit-Feeding Gastropods from an Open Coastline, Papua New Guinea, Radiocarbon [P], vol 54, issue 3-4, University of Arizona Department of Geosciences, Tucson AZ USA, pp. 967-978.

David, B., McNiven, I.J., Leavesley, M., Barker, B., Mandui, H., Richards, T., Skelly, R., 2012, A new ceramic assemblage from Caution Bay, south coast of mainland Papua New Guinea: The Linear Shell Edge-Impressed Tradition from Bogi 1, Journal of Pacific Archaeology [P], vol 3, issue 1, New Zealand Archaeological Association, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, pp. 73-89.

Delannoy, J., Geneste, J., David, B., Katherine, M., Gunn, R., Whear, R., 2012, Apports de la geomorphologie dans l'amenagement et la construction sociale des sites prehistoriques: Examples de la grotte Chauvet Pont-d'Arc (France) et de Nawarla Gabarnmang (Australia), Paleo [P], vol 23, Amis du Musee National de Prehistoire et de la Recherche Archeologique, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, France, pp. 85-104.

McNiven, I.J., David, B., Richards, T., Rowe, C., Leavesley, M., Mialanes, J., Connaughton, S., Baker, B., Aplin, K., Asmussen, B., Faulkner, P., Ulm, S., 2012, Lapita on the south coast of Papua New Guinea: challenging new horizons in Pacific archaeology, Australian Archaeology [P], vol 75, Australian Archaeological Association Inc., Australia, pp. 16-22.

David, B., Lamb, L., Delannoy, J., Pivoru, F., Rowe, C., Pivoru, M., Frank, T., Frank, N., Fairbairn, A., Pivoru, R., 2012, Poromoi Tamu and the case of the drowning village: History, lost places and the stories we tell, International Journal of Historical Archaeology [P], vol 16, issue 2, Springer, New York NY USA, pp. 319-345.

Geneste, J., David, B., Plisson, H., Delannoy, J., Petchey, F., 2012, The origins of ground-edge axes: New findings from Nawarla Gabarnmang, Arnhem Land (Australia) and global implications for the evolution of fully modern humans, Cambridge Archaeological Journal [P], vol 22, issue 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 1-17.

David, B., McNiven, I., Richards, T., Connaughton, S., Leavesley, M., Barker, B., Rowe, C., 2011, Lapita sites in the central province of mainland Papua New Guinea, World Archaeology [P], vol 43, issue 4, Routledge, UK, pp. 576-593.

Moffat, I., David, B., Barker, B., Kuaso, A., Skelly, R., Araho, N., 2011, Magnetometer surveys in archaeological research in Papua New Guinea: Keveoki 1, Gulf province, Archaeology In Oceania [P], vol 46, issue 1, Oceania Publications, Australia, pp. 17-22.

Thangavelu, A., David, B., Barker, B., Geneste, J., Delannoy, J., Lamb, L., Araho, N., Skelly, R., 2011, Morphometric analyses of Batissa violacea shells from Emo (OAC), Gulf province, Papua New Guinea, Archaeology In Oceania [P], vol 46, issue 2, Oceania Publications, Australia, pp. 67-75.

David, B., Geneste, J., Whear, R., Delannoy, J., Katherine, M., Gunn, R., Clarkson, C., Plisson, H., Lee, P., Petchey, F., Rowe, C., Barker, B., Lamb, L., Miller, W., Hoerle, S., James, D., Boche, E., Aplin, K., McNiven, I., Richards, T., Fairbairn, A., Matthews, J., 2011, Nawarla Gabarnmang, a 45,180�910 cal BP site in Jawoyn country, southwest Arnhem Land plateau, Australian Archaeology [P], vol 73, Australian Archaeological Association Inc., Australia, pp. 73-77.

McNiven, I., David, B., Richards, T., Aplin, K., Asmussen, B., Mialanes, J., Leavesley, M., Faulkner, P., Ulm, S., 2011, New direction in human colonisation of the Pacific: Lapita settlement of South Coast New Guinea, Australian Archaeology [P], vol 72, Australian Archaeological Association, Australia, pp. 1-6.

Donlon, D., David, B., 2010, Badu 14: Osteo-biography of a Torres Strait Islander, Artefact: Pacific rim archaeology [P], vol 33, Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria Inc., Australia, pp. 119-131.

Geneste, J., David, B., Plisson, H., Clarkson, C., Delannoy, J., Petchey, F., Whear, r., 2010, Earliest evidence for ground-edge axes: 35,400+-410 cal BP from Jawoyn Country, Arnhem Land, Australian Archaeology [P], vol 71, issue December 2010, Australian Archaeological Association Inc., St Lucia, Queensland, Australia, pp. 66-69.

McNiven, I., David, B., Aplin, K., Pivoru, M., Pivoru, W., Sexton, A., Brown, J., Clarkson, C., Connell, K., Stanisic, J., Weisler, M., Haberle, S., Fairbairn, A., Kemp, N., 2010, Historicising the present: Late holocene emergence of a rainforest hunting camp, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea, Australian Archaeology [P], vol 71, Australian Archeological Association Inc, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 41-56.

Skelly, R., David, B., Barker, B., Kuaso, A., Araho, N., 2010, Migration sites of the Miaro clan (Vailala River region, Papua New Guinea): tracking Kouri settlement movements through oral tradition sites on ancient landscapes, Artefact: Pacific rim archaeology [P], vol 33, Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria Inc., Australia, pp. 16-29.

David, B., Geneste, J., Aplin, K., Delannoy, J., Araho, N., Clarkson, C., Connell, K., Haberle, S., Barker, B., Lamb, L., Stanisic, J., Fairbairn, A., Skelly, R., Rowe, C., 2010, The Emo site (OAC), Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea: Resolving long-standing questions of antiquity and implications for the history of the ancestral hiri maritime trade, Australian Archaeology [P], vol 70, issue 1, Australian Archaeological Association Inc., St Lucia, Queensland, Australia, pp. 39-54.

David, B., Araho, N., Barker, B., Kuaso, A., Moffat, I., 2009, KEVEOKI 1: Exploring the Hiri ceramics trade at a short-lived village site near the Vailala river, Papua New Guinea, Australian Archaeology [P], vol 68, issue June 2009, Australian Archaeological Association, Qld Australia, pp. 11-22.

David, B., McNiven, I.J., Crouch, J.A.S., Skelly, R.J., Barker, B., Courtney, K., Hewitt, G., 2009, Koey Ngurtai: the emergence of a ritual domain in Western Torres Strait, Archaeology In Oceania [P], vol 44, issue 1, Oceania Publications, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 1-17.

Chippindale, C., David, B., Tacon, P., 2009, Memes and rock-art: an unproven and unpromising approach, Rock Art Research [P], vol 26, issue 1, Archaeological Publications, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 22-23.

Goodall, R., David, B., Kershaw, A.P., Fredericks, P.M., 2009, Prehistoric hand stencils at Fern Cave, North Queensland (Australia): environmental and chronological implications of Raman spectroscopy and FT-IR imaging results, Journal Of Archaeological Science [P], vol 36, issue 12, Elsevier Ltd, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 2617-2624.

McNiven, I.J., David, B., Goemulgau, K., Fitzpatrick, J., 2009, The great Kod of Pulu: Mutual historical emergence of ceremonial sites and social groups in Torres Strait, northeast Australia, Cambridge Archaeological Journal [P], vol 19, issue 3, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK, pp. 291-317.

Manas, J., David, B., Manas, L., Ash, J.E., Shnukal, A., 2008, An interview with Fr John Manas, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Cultural Heritage Series, vol 4, issue 2, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 385-418.

David, B., Orr, M.L., Zoppi, U., 2008, Archaeological excavations at Bulbul site Mua 116, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Cultural Heritage Series, vol 4, issue 2, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 575-580.

David, B., McNiven, I.J., Weisler, M., 2008, Archaeological excavations at Gerain and Urakaraltam, Queensland Museum. Memoirs. Cultural Heritage Series [P], vol 4, issue 2, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 525-552.

David, B., 2008, Archaeological surveys at Bulbul and Gerain, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Cultural Heritage Series, vol 4, issue 2, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 559-574.

Ash, J.E., Brooks, A., David, B., McNiven, I.J., 2008, European-manufactured objects from the 'Early Mission' site of Totalai Mua (Western Torres Strait), Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Cultural Heritage Series, vol 4, issue 2, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 473-491.

David, B., Barham, A., 2008, History of archaeological research on Mua, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Cultural Heritage Series, vol 4, issue 2, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 419-425.

Manas, L., David, B., Quinnell, M., 2008, Introduction to Gelam's Homeland, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Cultural Heritage Series, vol 4, issue 2, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 125-129.

Ash, J.E., David, B., 2008, Mua 22: archaeology at the old village site of Totalai, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Cultural Heritage Series, vol 4, issue 2, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 451-472.

David, B., 2008, Rethinking cultural chronologies and past landscape engagement in the Kopi region, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea, The Holocene, vol 18, issue 3, Sage, Los Angeles USA, pp. 463-479.

David, B., Araho, N., Kuaso, A., Moffat, I., Tapper, N.J., 2008, The upihoi find: Wrecked wooden bevaia (Lagatoi) hulls of Epemeavo Village, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea, Australian Archaeology, vol 66, issue 1 (June), Australian Archaeological Association, Brisbane Australia, pp. 1-14.

David, B., Ash, J.E., 2008, What do early European contact-period villages in Torres Strait look like? archaeological implications, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Cultural Heritage Series, vol 4, issue 2, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 428-450.

Crouch, J.A.S., McNiven, I.J., David, B., Rowe, C., Weisler, M., 2007, Berberass: Marine resource specialisation and environmental change in Torres Strait during the past 4000 years, Archaeology in Oceania, vol 42, issue 2, Oceania publications, University of Sydney, pp. 49-64.

David, B., Fairbairn, A., Aplin, K., Murepe, L., Green, M., Stanisic, J., Weisler, M.I., Simala, D., Kokents, T., Dop, J., Muke, J., 2007, OJP, a terminal pleistocene archaeological site from the gulf province lowlands, papua new guinea, Archaeology in Oceania, vol 42, issue 1, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 31-33.

David, B., Roberts, R.G., Magee, J.W., Mialanes, J., Turney, C.S.M., Bird, M.J., White, C.D., Fifield, L.K., Tibby, J., 2007, Sediment mixing at Nonda Rock: Investigations of stratigraphic integrity at an early archaeological site in northern Australia and implications for the human colonisation of the continent, Journal of Quaternary Science, vol 22, issue 5, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester England UK, pp. 449-479.

Clarke, S.J., Miller, G.H., Murray-Wallace, C., David, B., Pasveer, J.M., 2007, The geochronological potential of isoleucine epimerisation in cassowary and megapode eggshells from archaeological sites, Journal of Archaeological Science, vol 34, issue 7, Elsevier, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 1051-1063.

David, B., Weisler, M.I., 2006, Kurturniaiwak (Badu): and the archaeology of villages in Torres Strait, Australian Archaeology, vol 63, issue 2, Australian Archaeological Association, St Lucia Qld Australia, pp. 21-34.

McNiven, I.J., Dickinson, W.R., David, B., Weisler, M.I., Von Gnielinski, F., Carter, M., Zoppi, U.M., 2006, Mask cave: red-slipped pottery and the Australian-Papuan settlement of Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait), Archaeology in Oceania, vol 41, issue 2, Oceania Publications, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 49-81.

David, B., Badulgal, M., 2006, What happened in Torres Strait 400 years ago? Ritual transformations in an island seascape, Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, vol 1, issue 2, Taylor & Francis Group, Philadelphia USA, pp. 123-143.

David, B., Crouch, J.A.S., Zoppi, U., 2005, Historicizing the spiritual: Bu shell arrangements on the island of Badu, Torres Strait, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, vol 15, issue 1, Cambridge University Press, New York USA, pp. 71-91.

David, B., McNiven, I.J., Bowie, W., Nomoa, M., Ahmat, P., Crouch, J.A.S., Brady, L., Quinnell, M., Herle, A., 2004, Archaeology of Torres Strait turtle-shell masks: the Badu Cache, Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol 2004, issue 1, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 18-26.

Langton, M., David, B., 2004, Art as social momentum: coming into being in Yolnu art, Archaeological Review from Cambridge, vol 19, issue 1, Archaeological Review from Cambridge, Cambridge UK, pp. 47-60.

David, B., McNiven, I.J., Mitchell, R., Orr, M.L., Haberle, S.G., Brady, L., Crouch, J.A.S., 2004, Badu 15 and the Papuan-Austronesian settlement of Torres Strait, Archaeology in Oceania, vol 39, issue 2, Oceania Publications, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 65-78.

Haberle, S.G., David, B., 2004, Climates of change: human dimensions of Holocene environmental change in low latitudes of the PEPII transect, Quaternary International, vol 118-119, Elsevier, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 165-179.

David, B., McNiven, I.J., Manas, L., Manas, J., Savage, S., Crouch, J.A.S., Neliman, G., Brady, L., 2004, Goba of Mua: archaeology working with oral tradition, Antiquity, vol 78, issue 299, Antiquity Publications, England UK, pp. 158-172.

David, B., 2004, Intentionality, agency and an archaeology of choice, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, vol 14, issue 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 67-71.

McNiven, I.J., David, B., Brady, L., Brayer, J.M., 2004, Kabadul Kula: a rock-art site on Dauan Island,Torres Strait, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, vol 3, issue 1, Queensland Museum, Brisbane Australia, pp. 227-255.

Brady, L.M., David, B., Manas, L., McNiven, I.J., 2004, Rock paintings of Mua Island: initial results from western Torres Strait, Rock Art Research, vol 21, issue 1, Archaeological Publications, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 27-46.

David, B., McNiven, I.J., Mura Badulgal, Crouch, J.A.S., Brady, L., 2004, The Argan stone arrangement complex, Badu: initial results from Torres Strait, Australian Archaeology, vol 58, Australian Archaeological Association Inc., Adelaide SA Australia, pp. 1-6.

McNiven, I.J., David, B., 2004, Torres Strait rock-art and ochre sources: an overview, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, vol 3, issue 1, Queensland Museum, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 209-225.

David, B., McNiven, I.J., 2004, Western Torres Strait cultural history project: research design and initial results, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, vol 3, issue 1, Queensland Museum, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 199-208.

Brady, L., David, B., Manas, L., 2003, Community archaeology and oral tradition: commemorating and teaching cultural awareness on Mua Island Torres Strait, The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol 31, The University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia, pp. 41-48.

Langton, M., David, B., 2003, William Ricketts Sanctuary Victoria (Australia): sculpting nature and culture in a primitivist theme park, Journal of Material Culture, vol 8, issue 2, Sage Publications Ltd, UK, pp. 145-168.

David, B., 2002, Hand shelter (Ngarrabullgan), Cape York Peninsula, Australia: site report, The Artefact, vol 25, issue 1, The Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria, Inc, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 19-25.

David, B., Langton, M., McNiven, I.J., 2002, Re-inventing the wheel: indigenous peoples and the master race in Philip Ruddock's "wheel" comments, Philosophy Activism Nature, vol 0, issue 2, LaTrobe University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 31-45.

McNiven, I.J., David, B., Brady, L., 2002, Torres Strait rock-art: an enhanced perspective, Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol 1, issue 2, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 69-74.

David, B., Brayer, J., McNiven, I., Watchman, A., 2001, Why digital enhancement of rock paintings works: rescaling and saturating colours, Antiquity, vol 75, issue 290, Antiquity Publications Ltd, Cambridge UK, pp. 781-792.

David, B., Brayer, J.M., McNiven, I.J., Watchman, A., 2001, Why digital enhancement of rock-art works: rescaling and saturating colours, Antiquity, vol 75, Antiquity Publications Ltd, Cambridge England, pp. 781-792.

McNiven, I., David, B., Brayer, J., 2000, Digital Enhancement of Torres Strait Rock-Art, Antiquity, vol 74, Antiquity Trust, Cambridge UK, pp. 759-760.

Watchman, A., David, B., McNiven, I.J., Flood, J., 2000, Micro-Archaeology of Engraved and Painted Rock Surface Crusts at Yiwarlarlay (the Lightning Brothers site), Journal of Archaeological Science, vol 27 issue 4, Academic Press, http://www academicpress.com/jas, pp. 315-325.

Kershaw, A.P., Quilty, P.G., David, B., Van Huet, S., McMinn, A., 2000, Palaeobiogeography of the Quaternary of Australasia, Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, vol 23, Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 471-515.

Wilson, M., Sanhambath, J., Senembe, P.D., David, B., Hall, N., Abong, M., 2000, 'Tufala kev blong devil': People and Spirits in North West Malakula, Vanuatu - Implications for Management, Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, vol 4, James and James (Science Publishers) Ltd, London England, pp. 151-166.

David, B., Armitage, R.A., Hyman, M., Rowe, M., Lawson, E., 1999, How Old is North Queensland's Rock-Art? A Review of the Evidence, with New AMS Determinations, Archaeology in Oceania, vol 34 issue 3, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 103-120.

David, B., Lecole, M., Lourandos, H., Baglioni Jnr, A., Flood, J., 1999, Investigating Relationships between Motif Forms, Techniques and Rock Surfaces in North Australian Rock Art, Australian Archaeology, vol 48, Australian Archaeological Association, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 16-22.

David, B., Lourandos, H., 1999, Landscape as Mind: Land Use, Cultural Space and Change in North Queensland Prehistory, Quaternary International, vol 59, Elsevier, Oxford England, pp. 107-123.

McNiven, I., David, B., Lourandos, H., 1999, Long-term Aboriginal use of Western Victoria: Reconsidering the Significance of Recent Pleistocene Dates for the Grampians-Gariwerd Region, Archaeology in Oceania, vol 34 issue 2, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 83-85.

Bird, M.I., Ayliffe, L.K., Fifield, L.K., Turney, C.S.M., Cresswell, R.G., Barrows, T.T., David, B., 1999, Radiocarbon Dating of "Old" Charcoal Using a Wet Oxidation, Stepped-Combustion Procedure, Radiocarbon, vol 41 issue 2, University of Arizona, Tucson USA, pp. 127-140.

David, B., Wilson, M., 1999, Re-reading the Landscape: Place and Identity in NE Australia during the Late Holocene, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, vol 9 issue 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge England, pp. 163-188.

David, B., 1999, Whither Landscapes? The Rise and Fall of a Concept, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, vol 9 no 2, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Cambridge England, pp. 294-295.

David, B., Lourandos, H., 1998, Comparing Long-Term Archaeological and Environmental Trends: North Queensland Arid and Semi-Arid Australia, The Artefact, vol 21, The Arch.& Anthro.Society of Victoria, Inc., Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 105-114.

David, B., Armitage, R.A., Hyman, M., Rowe, M., Tuniz, C., Lawson, E., Jacobsen, G., Hua, Q., 1998, Radiocarbon Determination on Chillagoe Rock Painintgs: Small Sample Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Records of the Australian Museum, vol 50 no 3, Australian Museum, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 285-292.

David, B., Lourandos, H., 1998, Rock Art and Socio-Demography in Northwestern Australian Prehistory, World Archaeology, vol 30 no 2, Routledge, London UK, pp. 193-219.

David, B., 1998, Rock Art of Southeast Cape York Peninsula: Bonney Glen Station, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, vol 1 no 1, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 127-136.

David, B., Lourandos, H., 1997, 37,000 Years and More in Tropical Australia: Investigating Long-Term Archaeological Trends in Cape York Peninsula, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, vol 63, The Prehistoric Society, UK, pp. 1-23.

David, B., Walt, H., Lourandos, H., Rowe, M., Brayer, J., Tuniz, C., 1997, Ordering the rock paintings of the Mitchell-Palmer llimestone zone (Australia) for AMS dating, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, vol 20, Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Vic., Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 57-72.

David, B., 1997, Theory in Archaeology: A World Perspective, Proceedings, vol 63, The Prehistoric Society, UK, pp. 421-422.

Other

Lourandos, H., David, B., Barker, B., McNiven, I.J., 2006, An interview with Harry Lourandos, The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra ACT Australia.

Lake, P.S., Glaister, A., Davis, J.A., Downes, B.J., Finlayson, B.L., Keller, R., Tucker, A.J., Swingler, K., David, B., 1999, Restoration ecology in streams inundated by sand slugs: the Granite Creeks project, Victoria, Australia (Abstract), Sustainable Freshwater Ecosystems: the new millennium. Joint Annual Conference of NZ Limnological Society and Aust Society of Limnology. Taupo, NZ, 29 Nov - 2 Dec 1999.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:: (DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:: Changing Places - An Archaeological Study of Manikilarr Country 'A Borderland in Western Arnhem Land'.
Supervisors:: David, B (Main), Mcniven, I (Associate), Wright, D (Associate).

Program of Study:: (DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:: Echoes of the past: the rock-art of the Little Barra rockshelter Jawoyn country Arnhem.
Supervisors:: David, B (Main), Mcniven, I (Associate).

Program of Study:: (DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:: Historicising the hiri: ceramic trade in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea.
Supervisors:: David, B (Main), Mcniven, I (Associate).

Program of Study:: (DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:: Identification of unknown degradation mechanisms of Lapita archaeological ceramics and methods to arrest degradation pre and post excavation.
Supervisors:: David, B (Main), Mcniven, I (Associate).

Program of Study:: (DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:: Landscapes of the Dead: An Archaeology of the Kaiam people of the Kikori and their continued relatio.
Supervisors:: Mcniven, I (Main), David, B (Associate).

Program of Study:: (DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:: The Aboriginal rock art of Nawarla Gabarnmang.
Supervisors:: David, B (Main), Mcniven, I (Associate).

Program of Study:: (DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:: The archaeology of transegalitarian Aboriginal societies in South Western Victoria, Australia.
Supervisors:: Mcniven, I (Main), David, B (Associate).

Program of Study:: (DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:: The source and use life of lithic artifacts from the south coast of Papua New Guinea.
Supervisors:: Mcniven, I (Main), David, B (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:: Brady, L.
Program of Study:: Painting patterns: Torres Strait region rock-art, NE Australia. (PHD) 2005.
Supervisors:: Grindrod, J (Main), David, B (Associate), Mcniven, I (Associate).
Student:: James, D.
Program of Study:: Stepping from Winkler's Shadow: An Analysis of Supposed Female Anthropomorphs in the Rock-art of the Dakhleh Oasis Region in the Egyptian Western Desert. (Masters) 2010.
Supervisors:: Hope, C (Main), David, B (Associate).
Student:: Rowe, C.
Program of Study:: A holocene history of vegetation change in the western Torres Strait region, Queensland, Australia. (PHD) 2005.
Supervisors:: Kershaw, A (Main), David, B (Associate).