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Scientific papers and comments (* denotes refereed)

*1983. Taçon, P.S.C. An analysis of Dorset art in relation to prehistoric culture stress. Études/Inuit Studies 7(1):41-65.

1986. Taçon, P.S.C. Comments on N.R. Franklin's 'Stochastic vs emblemic: an archaeologically useful method for the analysis of style in Australian rock art'. Rock Art Research 3(2):130-31.

*1987. Taçon, P.S.C. Internal-external: a re-evaluation of the 'x-ray' concept in western Arnhem Land rock art. Rock Art Research 4(1):36-50.

1988a. Taçon, P.S.C. Contemporary Aboriginal interpretations of western Arnhem Land rock paintings. In M. West, ed., The inspired dream - life as art in Aboriginal Australia, pp. 20-25. Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.

*1988b. Taçon, P.S.C. Identifying fish species in the recent rock paintings of western Arnhem Land. Rock Art Research 5(1):3-15.

*1989a. Taçon, P.S.C. Art and the essence of being: symbolic and economic aspects of fish among the peoples of western Arnhem Land, Australia. In H. Morphy ed., Animals into art, pp. 236-50. Unwin Hyman, London.

*1989b. Taçon, P.S.C. From the 'Dreamtime' to the present: the changing role of Aboriginal rock paintings in western Arnhem Land, Australia. Canadian Journal of Native Studies 9(2):317-39.

*1989c. Taçon, P.S.C. Gurig National Park: an archaeologically significant region of the Northern Territory. Australian Archaeology 29:28-38.

1990a. Taçon, P.S.C. Comments on B.M.J. Huchet's 'The identification of cicatrices depicted on anthropomorphs in the Laura region, North Queensland'. Rock Art Research 7(1):37.

*1990b. Taçon, P.S.C. The power of place: cross-cultural responses to natural and cultural landscapes of stone and earth. In J.M. Vastokas ed., Perspectives of the Canadian landscape: Native traditions, pp. 11-43. Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University, North York.

1991. Specht, J., Gordon, P., Attenbrow, V., Taçon, P.S.C., Wakelin-King, Z., Bonshek, L., and Graham, J. Working together on issues of access: indigenous peoples and the Australian Museum. In S. Tonkin ed., Something for everyone: access to museums, pp. 185-88. Adelaide: Council of Australian Museums Associations.

*1991. Taçon, P.S.C. The power of stone: symbolic aspects of stone use and tool development in western Arnhem Land, Australia. Antiquity 65(247):192-207.

1992a. Taçon, P.S.C. 'If you miss all this story, well bad luck': rock art and the validity of ethnographic interpretation in western Arnhem Land, Australia. In M.J. Morwood and D.R. Hobbs eds., Rock art and ethnography, pp. 11-18. Occasional AURA Publication No. 5. Archaeological Publications, Melbourne.

*1992b. Taçon, P.S.C. Somewhere over the rainbow: an ethnographic and archaeological analysis of recent rock paintings of western Arnhem Land, Australia. In J. McDonald and I.P. Haskovec eds., State of the art: regional rock art studies in Australia and Melanesia, pp. 202-15. Occasional AURA Publication No. 6. Archaeological Publications, Melbourne.

*1992c. Taçon, P.S.C. The last rock painters of Kakadu. Australian Natural History 23(11):866-73.

*1993. Chippindale, C. and Taçon, P.S.C.. Two old painted panels from Kakadu: variation and sequence in Arnhem Land rock art. In J. Steinbring, A. Watchman, P. Faulstich and P.S.C. Taçon eds., Time and space: dating and spatial considerations in rock art research, pp. 32-56. Occasional AURA Publication No. 8. Archaeological Publications, Melbourne.

*1993. Steinbring, J., Watchman, A., Faulstich, P. and Taçon, P.S.C., eds. Time and space: dating and spatial considerations in rock art research. Occasional AURA Publication No. 8. Archaeological Publications, Melbourne.

1993a. Taçon, P.S.C. Art of the escarpments: image-making in western Arnhem Land. In G. Burenhult et al. eds., People of the Stone Age: hunter-gatherers and early farmers, pp. 218-19. The Illustrated History of Humankind Volume 2 (American Museum of Natural History). Harper, San Francisco (also St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press).

1993b. Taçon, P.S.C. Art of the land. In G. Burenhult et al. eds., The first humans: human origins and history to 10,000 BC, pp. 158-59. The Illustrated History of Humankind Volume 1 (American Museum of Natural History). Harper, San Francisco (also St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press).

1993c. Taçon, P.S.C. Bilder bland klipporna. In G. Burenhult ed., Bortom Afrika, pp. 52-53. Bra Bockers Encyklopedi Om Manniskans Historia Volume 2. Bra Bocker, Hoganas, Sweden.

*1993d. Taçon, P.S.C. Regionalism in the recent rock art of western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Archaeology in Oceania 28(3):112-20.

*1993e. Taçon, P.S.C. Stylistic relationships between the Wakeham Bay petroglyphs of the Canadian Arctic and Dorset portable art. In M. Lorblanchet and P. Bahn, eds., Rock art studies: the post-stylistic era, or where do we go from here?, pp. 151-62. Oxbow Monograph 35, Oxford.

1993f. Taçon, P.S.C. The Australian Museum's Aboriginal collections today. Muse April/May 1993:4, 11.

1993g. Taçon, P.S.C. The power of the image among the past and present peoples of Arnhem Land. In . S. Weeks et al. eds., ARATJARA - Art of the First Australians, pp. 127-33. Dusseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. pp. 127-33 (also published in German).

*1993. Taçon, P.S.C. and Cassis, G. Irksome insects, indigenous peoples and interrelationships. Australasian Science Winter 1993:5-9, 39-41, + cover photo.

*1993. Taçon, P.S.C. and Faulstich, P. Expressing relationships to the land by marking special places. In J. Steinbring, A. Watchman, P. Faulstich and P.S.C. Taçon eds., Time and space: dating and spatial considerations in rock art research, pp. 81-83. Occasional AURA Publication No. 8. Archaeological Publications, Melbourne.

*1994a. Taçon, P.S.C. Socialising landscapes: the long term implications of signs, symbols and marks on the land. Archaeology in Oceania 29(3):117-29.

*1994b. Taçon, Paul S.C. and Chippindale, C. Australia's ancient warriors: changing depictions of fighting in the rock art of Arnhem Land, N.T. (with comments from 10 leading authorities and reply). Cambridge Archaeological Journal 4(2):211-48.

1995. Szalay, A. and Taçon, P.S.C. Rock art warriors: world's earliest paintings of people at war. GEO 17(4):40-52.

1995a. Taçon, P.S.C. Aboriginal participation in archaeological research 1991. In I. Davidson, C. Lovell-Jones and R. Bancroft eds., Archaeologists and Aborigines working together, pp. 25-27. Armidale: University of New England Press.

1995b. Taçon, P.S.C. Comments on J.B. Deregowski's 'Perception-depiction-perception, and communication: a skeleton key to rock art and its significance'. Rock Art Research 12(1):16-18.

*1995. Taçon, P.S.C. and Brockwell, S. Arnhem Land prehistory in landscape, stone and paint. Antiquity 69(259):676-95.

1995. Taçon, P.S.C. and Garde, M. Kun-wardde bim, rock art from central and western Arnhem Land. In M. West ed., Rainbow, Sugarbag and Moon, pp. 30-36. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.

*1996. Taçon, P.S.C. Indigenous modernism: betwixt and between or at the cutting edge of contemporary art? COMA Bulletin of the Conference of Museum Anthropologists 27:33-55.

1996. Taçon, P.S.C. and Fullagar, R. Living with the past. Sydney Morning Herald 49629:13.

*1996. Taçon, P.S.C., Wilson, M and Chippindale, C. Birth of the Rainbow Serpent in Arnhem land rock art and oral history. Archaeology in Oceania 31(3):103-24.

1997. Ouzman, S., Taçon, P.S.C, Fullagar, R. and Mulvaney, K. The world's oldest rock art? Cupule engravings from the Top End of Australia. The Digging Stick 14(3):4-7.

*1997. Taçon, P.S.C. Archaeology, adventure and alarm (or survival skills for art lovers). Intercept 18:1, 4.

*1997. Taçon, P.S.C., Fullagar, R., Ouzman, S. and Mulvaney, K. Cupule engravings from Jinmium-Granilpi (northern Australia) and beyond: exploration of a widespread and enigmatic class of rock markings. Antiquity 71(274):942-65.

*1998a. Chippindale, C. and Taçon, P.S.C., eds. The Archaeology of rock-art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (391 pgs.).

*1998b. Chippindale, C. and Taçon, P.S.C. The many ways of dating Arnhem Land rock-art, north Australia. In C. Chippindale and P.S.C. Taçon eds., The archaeology of rock-art, pp. 90-111. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

*1998a. Taçon, P.S.C. Magical paintings of the Kimberley. Nature Australia 26(3):40-47.

*1998b. Taçon, P.S.C. Tracking time: a human concern. ABC Science: The Lab, 8 April, http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/tacon/story.htm.

*1998. Taçon, P.S.C. and Chippindale, C. An archaeology of rock-art through informed methods and formal methods. In C. Chippindale and P.S.C. Taçon eds., The archaeology of rock-art, pp. 1-10. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

1999. Fullagar, R., Head, L., Ward, I., Mulvaney, K., Taçon, P.S.C.. Archaeological research in the Keep River region, Northern Territory. Australian Archaeology 48(2):45-46.

*1999a. Taçon, P.S.C. All things bright and beautiful: the role and meaning of colour in human development. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 9(1):120-26.

*1999b. Taçon, P.S.C. Andrée Rosenfeld and the Archaeology of Rock-Art. Archaeology in Oceania 34(3):95-102.

*1999c. Taçon, P.S.C. Identifying ancient sacred landscapes in Australia: from physical to social. In W. Ashmore and A.B. Knapp eds., Archaeologies of landscapes: contemporary perspectives, pp. 33-57. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford.

1999d. Taçon, P.S.C. Landscapes, mindscapes and relationships to place. In Australian Museum ed., Kevin Todd's topographies: landscapes of the imagination, pp.2-4. Exhibition catalogue. Australian Museum, Sydney.

1999e. Taçon, P.S.C. Maps, marks and myths: a human concern. In Australian Museum, ed., Mapping our countries. Exhibition catalogue. Australian Museum, Sydney (September 1999); and Muse (December 1999 – January 2000):4-5.

1999. Taçon, P.S.C., Mulvaney, K., Fullagar, R. and Head, L. 'Bradshaws' -an eastern province? Rock Art Research 16(2):127-29.

*2000. Chaloupka, G., Chippindale, C., Nelson, E. and Taçon, P.S.C. Introduction. In E. Nelson ed., The beeswax art of northern Australia, pp. 10-15. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.

*2000. Chippindale, C., Smith, B. Taçon, P.S.C. Visions of Dynamic power: archaic rock-paintings, Altered States of Consciousness and 'clever men' in western Arnhem Land (NT), Australia. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19(1):63-101, and page 1.

*2000. Nelson, E., Chippindale, C., Chaloupka, G. and Taçon, P.S.C.. The plateau sites. In E. Nelson ed., The beeswax art of northern Australia, pp. 67-82. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.

*2000. Nelson, E., Chippindale, C., Taçon, P.S.C, and Chaloupka, G. Field recording: defintions and methods. In E. Nelson (ed.), The beeswax art of northern Australia, pp. 32-35. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.

*2000a. Taçon, P.S.C. Body art: a personal affair, an ancient tradition. In Australian Museum ed., Body Art, pp. 7-13. Outback Print, Mosman.

*2000b. Taçon, P.S.C. Connections/implications for the painted art. In E. Nelson ed., The beeswax art of northern Australia, pp. 97-98. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.

2000c. Taçon, P.S.C. New insight into old north Australian rock-art. Artlink 20(1):6-10

2000d. Taçon, P.S.C. Rock -art riches. Muse December - January 2000/01:6-7.

*2000e. Taçon, P.S.C. Rock art sites. In S. Kleinert and M. Neale eds., The Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture, pp. 690-91. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

*2000. Taçon, P.S.C., Chaloupka, G., Chippindale, C. and Nelson, E. Bindu. In E. Nelson ed., The beeswax art of northern Australia, pp. 83-84. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.

*2000. Taçon, P.S.C. and Garde, M. Dating beeswax figures on rock: the view from central Arnhem Land. In G. Ward and C. Tuniz eds. Advances in dating Australian rock-markings: papers from the First Australian Rock-Picture Dating Workshop, pp. 71-75. Occasional AURA Publication 10. Archaeological Publications, Melbourne.

*2000. Taçon, P.S.C., Garde, M., Kubarkku, M. and Birriyabirrya, B. Notes from Central Arnhem Land. In E. Nelson ed., The beeswax art of northern Australia, pp. 29-30. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.

*2000. Taçon, P.S.C., Garde, M. and Nelson, E. Mann River sites. In E. Nelson ed., The beeswax art of northern Australia, pp. 88-91. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.

*2000. Watchman, A., P.S.C. Taçon, R. Fullagar and Head, L. Minimum ages for pecked rock markings from Jinmium, north western Australia. Archaeology in Oceania 35(1):1-10.

2001a. Taçon, P.S.C. 2001. Aboriginal art: the heart of the land, the heart of being. In S. Smith ed., The landscape as metaphor: contemporary paintings by Australian artists, pp.4-5. Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville. http://www.landscapeasmetaphor.com/essays.htm.

*2001b. Taçon, P.S.C. Aborigines and honey. Nature Australia 27(1):57.

*2001c. Taçon, P.S.C. Australia. In D. Whitley ed., Handbook of rock art research, pp. 530-75. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California.

2001d. Taçon, P.S.C. 2001. Marked for life. The Courier-Mail April 14 2001: Books/Arts/Movies 3.

2001e. Taçon, P.S.C. 2001. Monster study concludes. http://www.amonline.net.au.

*2001f. Taçon, P.S.C. Theory building and model making in Australian rock art research. In K. Helskog ed., Theoretical perspectives in rock art research,110-23. Novus forlag, Oslo.

*2001. Taçon, P.S.C. and Chippindale, C. Najombolmi's people: from rock painting to national icon. In A. Anderson, I. Lilley, and S. O'Connor eds., Histories of old ages: Essays in honour of Rhys Jones., pp. 301-10. Pandanus Books, Australian National University, Canberra.

*2001. Taçon, P.S.C. and Chippindale, C. Transformation and depictions of the First People: animal-headed beings of Arnhem Land, N.T., Australia. In K. Helskog ed., Theoretical perspectives in rock art research,175-210. Novus forlag, Oslo.

*2002. Ouzman, S., Taçon, P.S.C., Mulvaney, K. and Fullagar, R.. Extraordinary engraved bird track from North Australia: extinct fauna, Dreaming Being and/or aesthetic masterpiece? Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12(2):103-12.

2002a. Taçon, P.S.C. Great body of work. The Daily Telegraph 17 April, 2002:31.

*2002b. Taçon, P.S.C. Rock-art and landscapes. In B. David and M. Wilson (eds), Inscribed landscapes: marking and making place, pp.122-36. University of Hawai`i Press, Honolulu.

*2002. Taçon, P.S.C. and Pardoe, C. Dogs make us human. Nature Australia 27(4):52-61.

2003. Faulstich, P., Ouzman, S. and P.S.C. Taçon (eds.). Exploring relationships through rock-art: ecology, landscape and colonial encounters. Before Farming 2003/1, 2003/2, 2003/3, 2003/4 and end of year Special Supplement. Western Academic and Specialist Press: Bristol
(http://www.waspjournals.com/journal_20031/;
http://www.waspjournals.com/journal_20032/;
http://www.waspjournals.com/journal_20033/
http://www.waspjournals.com/journal_20034/).

2003. Faulstich, P., Taçon, P.S.C. and S. Ouzman. Exploring relationships through rock-art: an introduction. Before Farming 2003/1 (5):1-16 (http://www.waspjournals.com/journal_20031/)

2002. Taçon, P.S.C. By the sea: a history of human engagement. pp. 56-57 in D. Handley (ed.), Sculpture by the sea Bondi 2002 catalogue and site map. A Bathtub Production: Sydney.

2003a. Taçon, P.S.C. The Landscape of Blue Mountains Rock-Art: Wollemi National Park Phase 1. Australian Museum: Sydney. (http://www.livingharbour.net/partners/wollemi.htm)

2003b. Taçon, P.S.C. Wollemi rock-art: a new study reveals long lost secrets. Muse November - December 2003 - January 2004:10-11.

2003. Taçon, P.S.C., South, B and S. Hooper. Depicting cross-cultural interaction: figurative designs in wood, earth and stone from south-east Australia. Archaeology in Oceania 38(2):89-101.

2003. Taçon, P.S.C., Mulvaney, K., Ouzman, S., Fullagar, R., Carlton, P. and Head, L. Changing ecological concerns in the rock-art subject matter of north Australia's Keep River region. Before Farming 2003/3 (4):1-14. (http://www.waspjournals.com/journal_20033/)


Book reviews

1992a. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Jan Jelinek's 'The great art of the early Australians'. Rock Art Research 9(2):144-46.

1992b. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Julian Burger's 'The Gaia atlas of First Peoples'. Australian Natural History 23(12):954.

1992c. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Peter Stanbury and John Clegg's 'A field guide to Aboriginal rock engravings'. Australian Natural History 24(1):69.

1993. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Robert Layton's 'Australian rock art: a new synthesis'. Archaeology in Oceania 28(3)149-50.

1994. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Barbara Bender's 'Landscape: politics and perspectives'. Antiquity 68(260):682-83.

1996. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Knut Helskog and Bjornar Olsen's (eds.) 'Perceiving rock art: social and political perspectives'. Antiquity 70(270):1015-16.

1997a. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Josephine Flood's 'Rock art of the Dreamtime: images of ancient Australia'. Antiquity 71(273): 785-86.

1997b. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Josephine Flood's 'Rock art of the Dreamtime: images of ancient Australia'. Nature Australia 25(10):73.

1999a. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of George P. Nicholas and Thomas D. Andrews' At a crossroads: archaeology and First Peoples in Canada. Australian Archaeology 48(2):71.

1999b. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Richard Bradley's 'Rock art and the prehistory of Atlantic Europe: signing the land'. American Journal of Archaeology 103(3):540-41.

2000. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Ruth Phillips and Christopher B. Steiner's 'Unpacking culture: art and commodity in colonial and postcolonial worlds'. Museum National 9(1):33.

2001. Taçon, P.S.C. Structural constraints to art theory and meaning. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 11(2):272-74.

2002. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Penny Tweedie's 'Aboriginal Australians: Spirit of Arnhem Land'. Nature Australia 27(4):77.

2002. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Robert Bednarik's 'Rock art science'. Australian Archaeology 55:55-56.