Professor Paul Taçon - Griffith University

Site Degrees

B Arts (Hons), M Arts, PhD

Professor, School of Humanities

Contact details for Professor Paul Taçon

Research expertise

Aboriginal art
Aboriginal material culture
Anthropology - art / religion
Anthropology - cultural evolution
Archaeology - hunter gatherers
Body art
Indigenous art - contemporary (Australia)
Indigenous perspectives - the past
Landscape archaeology
Material culture
Museums
Palaeoart / rock art
Photography - the landscape (Australia)
Photography / landscape archaeology
Rock art / palaeoart

Current teaching areas

Rock Art in the 21^st Century

Publications

Journal articles

1983. Taçon, P.S.C. An analysis of Dorset art in relation to prehistoric culture stress.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.
1988. 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. 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.
1989b. Taçon, P.S.C. Gurig National Park: an archaeologically significant region of the Northern Territory. Australian Archaeology 29:28-38.
1990. 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.
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.
1992. Taçon, P.S.C. The last rock painters of Kakadu. Australian Natural History 23(11):866-73.
1993. Taçon, P.S.C. Regionalism in the recent rock art of western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Archaeology in Oceania 28(3):112-20.
1993. Taçon, P.S.C. and G. Cassis. Irksome insects, indigenous peoples and interrelationships. Australasian Science Winter 1993:5-9, 39-41, + cover photo.
1994. 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.
1994. Taçon, Paul S.C. and C. Chippindale. 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 P.S.C. Taçon. Rock art warriors: world's earliest paintings of people at war. GEO 17(4):40-52.
1995. 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 S. Brockwell. Arnhem Land prehistory in landscape, stone and paint. Antiquity 69(259):676-95.
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., Wilson, M and C. Chippindale. 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 K. Mulvaney. 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., Fullagar, R., Ouzman, S. and K. Mulvaney. Cupule engravings from Jinmium-Granilpi (northern Australia) and beyond: exploration of a widespread and enigmatic class of rock markings. Antiquity 71(274):942-65.
1998. Taçon, P.S.C. Magical paintings of the Kimberley. Nature Australia 26(3):40-47.
1999. Fullagar, R., Head, L., Ward, I., Mulvaney, K. and P.S.C. Taçon. 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. Andr??e Rosenfeld and the Archaeology of Rock-Art. Archaeology in Oceania 34(3):95-102.
1999. Taçon, P.S.C., Mulvaney, K., Fullagar, R. and L. Head. 1999. 'Bradshaws' -an eastern province? Rock Art Research 16(2):127-29.
2000. Chippindale, C. B. Smith and P.S.C. Taçon. 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. Taçon, P.S.C. New insight into old north Australian rock-art. Artlink 20(1):6-10
2000. Watchman, A., Taçon, P.S.C., Fullagar, R. and L. Head. Minimum ages for pecked rock markings from Jinmium, north western Australia. Archaeology in Oceania 35(1):1-10.
2001. Taçon, P.S.C. Aborigines and honey. Nature Australia 27(1):57.
2002. Ouzman, S., P.S.C. Taçon, K. Mulvaney and Fullagar, R. Extraordinary engraved bird track from North Australia: extinct fauna, Dreamtime Being or aesthetic masterpiece? Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12(1):103-112.
2002. Taçon, P.S.C. and Pardoe, C. Dogs make us human. Nature Australia 27(4):52-61.
2003. Faulstich, P., Taçon, P.S.C. and S. Ouzman. Exploring relationships through rock-art: an introduction. Before Farming 2003/1 (5):1-16.
2003. Taçon, P.S.C., Mulvaney, K., Ouzman, S., Fullagar, R., Carlton, P. and L. Head. Changing ecological concerns in the rock-art subject matter of north Australia's Keep River Region. Before Farming 2003/3 (4):1-14.
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.
2004. Taçon, P.S.C., Golson, J., Huffman, K. and D. Griffin. Jim Specht's brilliant career: a tribute. In V. Attenbrow and R. Fullagar (eds.), Pacific Odyssey: archaeology and anthropology in the western Pacific. Papers in honour of Jim Specht. Records of the Australian Museum (Supplement) 29:1-8.
2004. Taçon, P.S.C., Nelson, E., Chippindale, C. and G, Chaloupka 2004. The beeswax rock art of the Northern Territory: direct dating results and a 'book of record'. Rock Art Research 21(2):155-160.
2004. Taçon, P.S.C. and S. Davies. Transitional traditions: 'Port Essington' bark-paintings and the European discovery of Aboriginal aesthetics. Australian Aboriginal Studies 2004(2):72-86.
2004. Taçon, P.S.C., D.Y.Y. Aung and A. Thorne. Myanmar prehistory: rare rock markings revealed. Archaeology in Oceania 39(3):138-139.
2005. Taçon, P.S.C. Modern human behaviour and the implications of small-bodied hominin finds from the late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia. Before Farming 2005/4 (2):1-6.
2005. Taçon, P.S.C. The world of ancient ancestors: Australian Aboriginal caves and other realms within rock. Expedition 47(3):37-42.
2006. Chippindale, C. and P.S.C. Taçon. What's in a word, what's in a hyphen? A modest proposal that we abandon the words 'petroglyph' and 'pictograph', and hyphenate 'rock-painting', 'rock-engraving', 'rock-art' among the words we use (with comments and reply). Rock Art Research 23(2):254-60.
2006. Sauvet, G., Layton, R.H., Lessen-Erz, T., Taçon, P.S.C. and A. Wlodarczyk. La structure iconographique d'un art rupestre est-elle une clef pour son interpr ?? tation? Zephyrus 59:97-110.
2006a. Taçon, P.S.C. Behaviorally modern at 300,000 BP: was my ancestor brighter than yours? Before Farming 2006/2 (3):1-9.
2006b. Taçon, P.S.C. Shamanism and rock art interpretation. Before Farming 2006/4 (6):1-3.
2006. Taçon, P.S.C., Kelleher, M., Brennan, W., Hooper, S. and D. Pross. Wollemi petroglyphs, NSW, Australia: an unusual assemblage with rare motifs. Rock Art Research 23(2):227-38.
2006. Ward, I.A.K., Fullagar, R.L.K., Boer-Mah, T., Head, L.M., Taçon, P.S.C. and K. Mulvaney. Comparison of sedimentation and occupation histories inside and outside rock shelters, Keep-River Region, northwestern Australia. Geoarchaeology 21(1):1-27.
2007. Smith, M.A., Taçon, P.S.C., Curnoe, D. and A. Thorne. Human dispersal into Australasia. Science 315:597-598.
2007. Taçon, P.S.C. and C. Chippindale. Rock-writing, picture-writing, petroglyphs, rock-art; and the importance of the hyphen. Rock Art Research 24(1): 126-127.
2008. Taçon, P.S.C. Doodles, rock art and arousal: an alternative to the entoptic explanation. Rock Art Research 25(1):52-54.
2008. Taçon, P.S.C. Rainbow colour and power among the Waanyi of northwest Queensland. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 18(2):163-176.
2009. Chippindale, C., David, B. and P.S.C. Taçon. Memes and rock-art: an unproven and unpromising approach. Rock Art Research 26(1):22-23.
2009. Sauvet, G., Layton, R.H., Lessen-Erz, T., Taçon, P.S.C. and A. Wlodarczyk. Thinking with animals in Upper Palaeolithic rock art. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19(3):319-336.
2010. Langley, M. and P.S.C. Taçon. The age of Australian rock art: a review. Australian Archaeology 71:70-73.
2010.May, S.K., Taçon, P.S.C., Wesley, D. and M. Travers. Painting History: Indigenous observations and depictions of the 'other' in northwestern Arnhem Land, Australia. Australian Archaeology 71:57-65.
2010. Taçon, P.S.C. Animated animism: what does it actually tell us? Rock Art Research 27(1):77-78.
2010. Taçon, P.S.C., Boivin, N. Hampson, J., Blinkhorn, J., Korisettar, R. and M. Petraglia. New rock art discoveries in the Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh, India. Antiquity 84(324):335-350.
2010. Taçon, P.S.C., Langley, M., May, S.K., Lamilami, R., Brennan, W. and D. Guse. Ancient bird stencils in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. Antiquity 84(324):416-427.
2010. Taçon, P.S.C., Li, G., Yang, D., May, S.K., Liu, H., Aubert, M., Xueping, X., Curnoe, D. and A.I.R. Herries. Naturalism, nature and questions of style in Jinsha River rock art, northwest Yunnan, China. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 20(1):67-86.
2010. Taçon, P.S.C., May, S.K., Fallon, S.J., Travers, M., Wesley, D. and R. Lamilami. A minimum age for early depictions of Southeast Asian praus in the rock art of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Australian Archaeology 71:1-10.
In press. Ji, X., Curnoe, D., Bai, K., Herries, A., Bao, Z., Fink, D., Luo, Q., Helstrom, J., Zhu, Y. and P.S.C. Taçon. 2010. New investigations of the Maludong palaeoanthropological locality, Mengzi County, Yunnan Province. Acta Anthropolgia Sinica (accepted August 2010).
In press. Mokhtar, S. and P.S.C. Taçon. The recent rock drawings of the Lenggong Valley, Perak, Malaysia. Antiquity (accepted August 2010).
In press. Taçon, P.S.C., Langley, M., May, S.K., Lamilami, R., Brennan, W. and D. Wesley. A bird in the hand: response to Franklin and Szabo. Antiquity (accepted December 2010).
In press. Taçon, P.S.C., Li, G., Yang, D., May, S.K., Aubert, M., Liu, H., Ji, X., Curnoe, D. and A.I.R. Herries. The age and cultural significance of Jinsha River naturalistic rock art, northwest Yunnan Province, China. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (accepted January 2010).
In review. Taçon, P.S.C., Aubert, M., Gang, L., Yang, D., Liu, H., May, S.K., Fallon, S., Ji, X., Curnoe, D. and A.I.R. Herries. Uranium-series age estimates for rock art in southwest China. Journal of Archaeological Science.
In review. Sukkham, A., Taçon, P.S.C. and N.H. Tan. The rock art of Tham Phrayanaga (Viking Cave), southern Thailand. Antiquity.

Books/Journal edited

1993. Steinbring, J., Watchman, A., Faulstich, P. and P.S.C. Taçon. (eds.), Time and space: dating and spatial considerations in rock art research. Occasional AURA Publication No. 8. Archaeological Publications, Melbourne.
1998a. Chippindale, C. and P.S.C. Taçon. (eds.), The Archaeology of rock-art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (391 pgs.).
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.

Book chapters

1988. 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.
1989. 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.
1990. 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 J. Graham. 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.
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.
1993. Chippindale, C. and P.S.C. Taçon. 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.
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. 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.
1993e. 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 P. Faulstich. 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.
1995. 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.
1995. Taçon, P.S.C. and M. Garde. 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.
1998. Chippindale, C. and P.S.C. Taçon. 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.
1998. Taçon, P.S.C. and C. Chippindale. 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. 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.
2000. Chaloupka, G., Chippindale, C., Nelson, E. and P.S.C. Taçon. Introduction. In E. Nelson (ed.), The beeswax art of northern Australia, pp. 10-15. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.
2000. Nelson, E., Chippindale, C., Chaloupka, G. and P.S.C. Taçon. 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 G. Chaloupka. Field recording: definitions 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. 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 D.E. Nelson. Bindu. In E. Nelson (ed.), The beeswax art of northern Australia, pp. 83-84. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.
2000. Taçon, P.S.C. and M. Garde. 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 B. Birriyabirrya. 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 D.E. Nelson. Mann River sites. In E. Nelson (ed.), The beeswax art of northern Australia, pp. 88-91. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.
2001a. Taçon, P.S.C. Australia. In D. Whitley (ed.), Handbook of rock art research, pp. 530-75. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
2001b. 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 C. Chippindale. 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 C. Chippindale. 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. Taçon, P.S.C. Rock-art and landscapes. In B. David and M. Wilson eds., Inscribed landscapes: marking and making place, pp.122-136. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu.
2004. Taçon, P.S.C. Ochre, clay, stone and art: the symbolic importance of minerals as life-force among Aboriginal peoples of northern and central Australia. In N. Boivin and M.A. Owoc, eds., Soils, stones and symbols: cultural perceptions of the mineral world, pp. 31-42. UCL Press, London.
2004. Taçon, P.S.C. and S. Ouzman. Worlds within stone: the inner and outer rock-art landscapes of northern Australian and southern African. In C. Chippindale and G. Nash (eds.), The figured landscapes of rock-art: looking at pictures in place, pp.39-68. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
2005. Taçon, P.S.C. Marks on and of land: the relationship of rock and bark painting to people, places and the ancestral past. In Kaufmann, C. (ed.), 2005. 'rarrk' John Mawurndjul journey through time in northern Australia, pp. 160-165. Museum Tinguely and Schwabe Verlag, Basel.
2006. Taçon, P.S.C. Australian Aboriginal art: ancient traditions, contemporary expressions. In J. Ryan, ed., Land Marks, pp. 91-95. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
2007. Taçon, P.S.C. Rock-art research for the 21^st Century: bringing art, science and people together. In J. Deacon, ed., African rock art: the future of Africa's past, pp.132-139. Trust for African Rock Art, Nairobi.
2008. Taçon, P.S.C. Marks of possession: the archaeology of territory and cross-cultural encounter in Australia and South Africa. In B. David and J. Thomas (eds.), Handbook of landscape archaeology, pp.218-227. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek.
2008. Taçon, P.S.C., Kelleher, M., King, G. and W. Brennan. Eagle's Reach: a focal point for past and present social identity within the northern Blue Mountains World heritage area, New South Wales, Australia. In I. Domingo Sanz, D. Fiore and S.K. May (eds.), Archaeologies of art: time, place and identity, pp.195-214. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek.
2008. Taçon, P.S.C. and C. Chippindale. Changing places: ten thousand years of north Australian rock-art transformation. In D. Papagianni, H. Maschner and R. Layton (eds.), Time and change: archaeological and anthropological perspectives on the long-term in hunter-gatherer societies, pp.73-94. Oxbow Books, Oxford.
2009. Taçon, P.S.C. Identifying ancient religious thought and iconography; problems of definition, preservation and interpretation. In C. Renfrew and I. Morley (eds.), Becoming human: innovation in material and spiritual cultures, pp.61-73. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
2009. Taçon, P.S.C. The creativity centre: where art meets science. In C. Volkenandt and C. Kaufmann (eds.), Between Indigenous Australia and Europe: John Marwurndjul, pp.211-216. Aboriginal Studies Press/Reimer: Canberra & Berlin.
2010. Taçon, P.S.C. Hunter and emu. In. F. Cubillo and W. Caruana (eds.), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art collection highlights, p.113. Canberra: National Art Gallery of Australia.
2010. Taçon, P.S.C. Identifying ancient sacred landscapes in Australia: from physical to social. In R.W. Preucel,and S.A. Mrozowski (eds.), Contemporary Archaeology in theory: the new pragmatism, pp. 77-91. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester.
2010. Taçon, P.S.C., Chapple, R.S., Merson, J., Ramp, D., Brennan, W., King, G. and A. Tasire. Aboriginal rock art depictions of fauna: What can they tell us about the natural history of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage area? In D. Lunney, P. Hutchings and D. Hochuli (eds.), The Natural history of Sydney, pp. 58-73. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Sydney.
In press. Blinkhorn, J., Boivin, N., Taçon, P.S.C. and M.D. Petraglia. Rock art research in India: historical approached and recent theoretical directions. In J. McDonald and P. Veth (eds.), A companion to rock art. Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell (accepted July 2010).
In press. May, S., Domingo, I. and P.S.C. Taçon. Arte rupestre de contacto: la versión Indígena de los encuentros interculturales en el noroeste de la Tierra de Arnhem (Australia). In F. Berrojalbiz (ed.), The vitality of the Indigenous voices; rock art of the contact and in colonial societies (accepted May 2010).
In press. Taçon, P.S.C. A visit to Injalak twenty years ago. In S. May and M. Garde (eds.), Injalak. Green Poles Press, Melbourne (accepted March 2006).
In press. Taçon, P.S.C. Presenting rock-art through digital film: recent Australian examples. In D. Morris (ed.), Presenting rock art, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek (accepted May 2006).
In press. Taçon, P.S.C. Special places and images on rock; 50,000 years of Indigenous engagement with Australian landscapes. In J. Anderson (ed.), Cambridge companion to Australian art. Cambridge University Press, Melbourne (accepted July 2010).
In press. Taçon, P.S.C., Brennan, W., Hooper, S., Kelleher, M. and D. Pross. Differential cave and rock-shelter use during the Pleistocene and Holocene. In H. Moyes (ed.), Journeys into the dark zone: a cross cultural perspective on caves as sacred spaces. University of Colorado Press, Boulder (accepted July 2010).
In press. Taçon, P.S.C., Brennan, W. and R. Lamilami. Rare and curious thylacine depictions from Wollemi National Park, NSW and Arnhem Land, NT, Australia. In J. Specht and R. Torrence (eds.), Papers in honour of Val Attenbrow. Technical Report. Australian Museum, Sydney(accepted April 2010).
In press. Taçon, P.S.C., Paterson, A., Ross, J. and S. May. Picturing change and changing pictures: contact period rock art of Australia. In J. McDonald and P. Veth (eds.), A companion to rock art. Chichester, Wiley- Blackwell (accepted August 2010).

Other publications

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.
1993a. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Robert Layton's 'Australian rock art: a new synthesis'. Archaeology in Oceania 28(3)149-50.
1993b. Taçon, P.S.C. The Australian Museum's Aboriginal collections today. Muse April/May 1993:4, 11.
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.
1996. Taçon, P.S.C. and R. Fullagar. Living with the past. Sydney Morning Herald 49629:13.
1997a. Taçon, P.S.C. Archaeology, adventure and alarm (or survival skills for art lovers). Intercept 18:1, 4.
1997b. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Josephine Flood's 'Rock art of the Dreamtime: images of ancient Australia'. Antiquity 71(273): 785-86.
1997c. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Josephine Flood's 'Rock art of the Dreamtime: images of ancient Australia'. Nature Australia 25(10):73.
1998. Taçon, P.S.C. Tracking time: a human concern. ABC Science: The Lab, 8 April.
1999a. 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.
1999b. 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.
1999c. 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.
1999d. 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.
2000a. 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.
2000b. Taçon, P.S.C. Rock-art riches. Muse December-January 2000/01:6-7.
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.
2001b. Taçon, P.S.C. 2001. Marked for life. The Courier-Mail April 14 2001: Books/Arts/Movies 3.
2001c. Taçon, P.S.C. 2001. Monster study concludes. http://www.austmus.gov.au.
2001d. Taçon, P.S.C. Structural constraints to art theory and meaning. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 11(2):272-74.
2002a. Taçon, P.S.C. By the sea: a history of human engagement. In S. Handley (ed.), Sculpture by the Sea Bondi 2002 catalogue and site map, pp. 56-57. A Bathtub Production, Sydney.
2002b. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Penny Tweedie's 'Aboriginal Australians: Spirit of Arnhem Land'. Nature Australia 27(4):77.
2002c. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Robert Bednarik's 'Rock art science'. Australian Archaeology 55:55-56.
2002d. Taçon, P.S.C. Great body of work. The Daily Telegraph 17 April, 2002:31.
2003a. Taçon, P.S.C. The landscape of Blue Mountains rock-art: Wollemi National Park Phase 1. Australian Museum: Sydney.
2003b. Taçon, P.S.C. Wollemi rock-art: a new study reveals long lost secrets. Muse November - December 2003 - January 2004:10-11.
2005a. Taçon, P.S.C. Chains of connection. Griffith REVIEW Edition 9 ' Up North: Myths, Threats and Enchantment, 1-7.
2005b. Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Thomas Heyd and John Clegg's 'Aesthetics and rock art', Nature Australia 28(6):76.
2005. Taçon, P.S.C., Brennan, W., Hooper, S., Kelleher, M. and Pross, D. 2005. Greater Wollemi: a new Australian rock-art area bordering Sydney. International Organisation of Rock Art (INORA) Newsletter 43:1-6.
2006. Taçon, P.S.C. A statement of identity. On Line opinion: Australia's e-journal of social and political debate. April, article 4321:1-4.
2006. Taçon, P.S.C. Comment on Derek Hodgson and Patricia A. Helvenston's 'The emergence of the representation of animals in palaeoart' (with reply). Rock Art Research 23(2):247-53.
2006. Taçon, P.S.C. Eagle's Reach. DIG 8(4):33.
2006. Taçon, P.S.C. My body, my art. On Line opinion: Australia's e-journal of social and political debate. April, article 4322:1-4. (http:www.onlineopinion.com.au/print.asp?article=4322)
2006. Taçon, P.S.C. Panel Discussion. openmuseumjournal 8:article 8:1-23
2007 Taçon, P.S.C. Review of Robert Bednarik's 'Australian apocalypse: The story of Australia''s greatest cultural monument'. Australian Archaeology 64(1):59-60.
2007. Taçon, P.S.C. and E. Maynard. Dogs in China may be food or friend. In. M. Bekoff, ed., Encyclopaedia of human-animal relationships, pp.34-36. Greenwood Press, Westport.
2008. Taçon, P.S.C. History of neglect undermines us all. Sydney Morning Herald 53,257 (June 4, 2008):17.
2008. Taçon, P.S.C.>Review of Mike Pearson's '"In comes I: performance, memory and landscape'. Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture 1(1):105-107.
2008. Saidin, M., Taçon, P.S.C., Yang, D., Nash, G., May, S.K. and Lewis, B. Illustrating the past: the rock art of Southeast Asia. Current World Archaeology 29:40-48.
2009. Taçon, P.S.C.>Review of James D. Keyser, George Poetschat and Michael M. Taylor's (eds.) 'Talking with the past: the ethnography of rock art'. Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture 02(02):247-249.
2009. Taçon, P.S.C.>Review of Mike Donaldson and Kevin Kenneally's (eds.) 'Rock art of the Kimberley: proceedings of the Kimberley Society rock art seminar held at the University of Western Australia, Perth, 10 September 2005'. Australian Archaeology 68:77.

Films

2004. Taçon, P.S.C. and C. Payne. Rediscovering Aboriginal Wollemi. DVD, 15 minutes. Australian Museum, Sydney.
2005. Taçon, P.S.C. Journey to the land of the Eagle. DVD, 30 minutes, Griffith University, Gold Coast.
2008. May, S.K. and P.S.C. Taçon. Esther Remembers. DVD 31 minutes. Griffith University, Gold Coast.
2009. Taçon, P.S.C. Lamajugu: Gateway to Jinsha River rock art. Archaeological Expedition October 2008. DVD 15 minutes. Griffith University. Gold Coast.
2009. Taçon, P.S.C. and A. Strong. Made in Malarrak. DVD 12 minutes. Griffith University, Gold Coast.
2011. Taçon, P.S.C. and A. Strong. Djulirri: An Aboriginal library of encounter and experience. DVD 30 minutes. Griffith University, Gold Coast.