Paul Taçon

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According to Wikipedia, Paul S.C. Taçon is an anthropologist and archaeologist based in Australia. He has conducted field work in Australia, Botswana, Cambodia, Canada, China, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, South Africa and the United States. In 2011, he was appointed the first chair in Rock Art research at Griffith University on the Gold Coast, Australia. Taçon has made several key archaeological discoveries in Australia, most notably in western Arnhem Land and Wollemi National Park . These include the earliest rock art evidence of warfare in the world, the origins of the Rainbow Serpent, significant new Arnhem Land rock art sites, rock art discoveries in Wollemi National Park and the oldest rock paintings of Southeast Asian watercraft in Australia.

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The power of stone: symbolic aspects of stone use and tool development in western Arnhem Land, Australia (1991) (216)
The Archaeology of Rock-Art (1999) (145)
Palaeolithic cave art in Borneo (2018) (140)
Australia's Ancient Warriors: Changing Depictions of Fighting in the Rock Art of Arnhem Land, N.T. (1994) (96)
At A Crossroads: Archaeology And First Peoples In Canada (1999) (76)
Socialising landscapes: the long-term implications of signs, symbols and marks on the land (1994) (71)
A Minimum Age For Early Depictions Of Southeast Asian Praus in the Rock Art of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory (2010) (71)
Birth of the Rainbow Serpent in Arnhem Land rock art and oral history (1996) (67)
From rainbow snakes to 'X-Ray' fish : the nature of the recent rock painting tradition of Western Arnhem Land, Australia (1989) (66)
Human Remains from the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition of Southwest China Suggest a Complex Evolutionary History for East Asians (2012) (65)
Arnhem Land prehistory in landscape, stone and paint (1995) (58)
Cupule engravings from Jinmium–Granilpi (northern Australia) and beyond: exploration of a widespread and enigmatic class of rock markings (1997) (58)
Painting History: Indigenous Observations and Depictions of the ‘Other’ in Northwestern Arnhem Land, Australia (2010) (57)
Who let the dogs in? A review of the recent genetic evidence for the introduction of the dingo to Australia and implications for the movement of people (2016) (43)
Testing the value of low-cost Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry for metric and visual analysis of rock art (2018) (43)
Identifying ancient sacred landscapes in Australia: from physical to social (2010) (43)
Uranium-series age estimates for rock art in southwest China (2012) (37)
Rainbow Colour and Power among the Waanyi of Northwest Queensland (2008) (35)
Picturing change and changing pictures: Contact period rock art of Australia (2012) (35)
Regionalism in the recent rock art of western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory (1993) (33)
The global implications of the early surviving rock art of greater Southeast Asia (2014) (32)
The Age of Australian Rock Art: A Review (2010) (32)
Visions of Dynamic Power: Archaic Rock-paintings, Altered States of Consciousness and ‘Clever Men’ in Western Arnhem Lane (NT), Australia (2000) (32)
Dogs make us human. (2002) (30)
Ancient nuclear genomes enable repatriation of Indigenous human remains (2018) (30)
Thinking with Animals in Upper Palaeolithic Rock Art (2009) (27)
Changing ecological concerns in rock-art subject matter of north Australia's Keep River region (2003) (27)
Minimum ages for pecked rock markings from Jinmium, north western Australia. (2000) (27)
Ochre, clay, stone and art: the symbolic importance of minerals as life-force among Aboriginal peoples of northern and central Australia (2004) (25)
Comparison of sedimentation and occupation histories inside and outside rock shelters, Keep‐River region, northwestern Australia (2006) (24)
Naturalism, Nature and Questions of Style in Jinsha River Rock Art, Northwest Yunnan, China (2010) (24)
Time and Space: Dating and Spatial Considerations in Rock Art Research (1996) (24)
Ancient bird stencils discovered in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia (2010) (23)
Rock Art: A Cultural Treasure at Risk (2016) (23)
Deep Skull from Niah Cave and the Pleistocene Peopling of Southeast Asia (2016) (22)
The recent rock drawings of the Lenggong Valley, Perak, Malaysia (2011) (21)
Worlds within stone: the inner and outer rock-art landscapes of northern Australia and southern Africa. (2004) (20)
The world from Malarrak: Depictions of South-East Asian and European subjects in rock art from the Wellington Range, Australia (2013) (20)
A SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF A NEW CUPULE SITE IN JABILUKA, WESTERN ARNHEM LAND (2014) (19)
FROM THE "DREAMTIME" TO THE PRESENT: THE CHANGING ROLE OF ABORIGINAL ROCK PAINTINGS IN WESTERN ARNHEM LAND, AUSTRALIA (1989) (19)
THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF 'ANIMISM': IMPLICATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING ROCK ART. Commentary. Authors' reply (2010) (19)
A Systematic Quantitative Literature Review of Southeast Asian and Micronesian Rock Art (2019) (18)
A Hominin Femur with Archaic Affinities from the Late Pleistocene of Southwest China (2015) (18)
Rock-art and landscapes (2002) (18)
The Timing and Nature of Human Colonization of Southeast Asia in the Late Pleistocene (2017) (17)
New rock art discoveries in the Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh, India (2010) (17)
Depicting Cross-Cultural Interaction: Figurative Designs in Wood, Earth and Stone from South-East Australia (2003) (16)
Possible Signatures of Hominin Hybridization from the Early Holocene of Southwest China (2015) (16)
The beeswax rock art of the Northern Territory: direct dating results and a 'book of record' (2004) (16)
Talking with the Past: The Ethnography of Rock Art (2009) (15)
Rock art evidence for Macassan - Aboriginal contact in northwestern Arnhem Land (2013) (15)
Illustrating the past: the rock art of Southeast Asia (2008) (15)
The rock art of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II) (2017) (14)
Mid-Holocene age obtained for nested diamond pattern petroglyph in the Billasurgam Cave complex, Kurnool District, southern India (2013) (14)
Early Australian Anthropomorphs: Jabiluka's Dynamic Figure Rock Paintings (2017) (14)
Connecting to the Ancestors: Why Rock Art is Important for Indigenous Australians and their well-being (2019) (13)
Painted ships on a painted Arnhem Land landscape (2013) (13)
Analysis of the Preserved Amino Acid Bias in Peptide Profiles of Iron Age Teeth from a Tropical Environment Enable Sexing of Individuals Using Amelogenin MRM (2019) (13)
Eagle's Reach: a focal point for past and present social identity within the northern Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, Australia (2008) (13)
New and Emerging Challenges to Heritage and Well-Being: A Critical Review (2019) (12)
A collaborative, ontological and information visualization model approach in a centralized rock art heritage platform (2016) (12)
Maliwawa figures—a previously undescribed Arnhem Land rock art style (2020) (12)
The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia (Terra Australis 47) (2017) (12)
New Insights into the Rock Art of Anbangbang Gallery, Kakadu National Park (2020) (12)
The future of rock art management in Australia (2014) (12)
Najombolmi's people: from rock painting to national icon. (2001) (12)
Transformation and depictions of the First People: animal-headed beings of Arnhem Land, N.T., Australia. (2001) (12)
‘This is my father’s painting’ : A first-hand account of the creation of the most iconic rock art in Kakadu National Park (2019) (12)
Further geological and palaeoanthropological investigations at the Maludong hominin site, Yunnan Province, Southwest China (2013) (11)
New engravings discovered at Santubong, Sarawak, Malaysia (2010) (11)
Dental remains from Longtanshan cave 1 (Yunnan, China), and the initial presence of anatomically modern humans in East Asia (2016) (11)
Transitional Traditions: 'Port Essington' Bark-paintings and the European Discovery of Aboriginal Aesthetics (2004) (10)
Extraordinary Engraved Bird Track from North Australia: Extinct Fauna, Dreaming Being and/or Aesthetic Masterpiece? (2002) (10)
Memorialization and the Stencilled Rock Art of Mirarr Country, Northern Australia (2018) (10)
Myanmar prehistory: rare rock‐markings revealed (2004) (10)
Rock art research in India: Historical approaches and recent theoretical directions (2012) (9)
Changing Perspectives in Australian Archaeology, part XI. Rare and curious thylacine depictions from Wollemi National Park, New South Wales and Arnhem Land, Northern Territory (2011) (9)
Rare Late Pleistocene-early Holocene human mandibles from the Niah Caves (Sarawak, Borneo) (2018) (9)
Relating to rock art in the contemporary world: Navigating symbolism, meaning and significance (2016) (9)
Oodles of Doodles?: Doodling Behaviour and Its Implications for Understanding Palaeoarts [with comments] (2008) (9)
Exploring Ceremony: The Archaeology of a Men's Meeting House (‘Kod’) on Mabuyag, Western Torres Strait (2016) (9)
Changing places: ten thousand years of north Australian rock-art transformation (2008) (9)
Bone Projectile Points in Prehistoric Australia: Evidence from Archaeologically Recovered Implements, Ethnography, and Rock Art (2016) (9)
Special places and images on rock: 50 000 years of Indigenous engagement with Australian landscape (2011) (9)
Rock Art and the Sacred Landscapes of Mainland Southeast Asia (2014) (9)
Australian Apocalypse: The Story of Australia's Greatest Cultural Monument [Book Review] (2007) (9)
Naturalistic Animals And Hand Stencils In The Rock Art Of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Northwest China (2016) (8)
Dating beeswax figures on rock: the view from central Arnhem Land (2000) (7)
Ship shape: an exploration of maritime-related depictions in Indigenous rock art and material culture (2013) (7)
Survival, Social Cohesion and Rock Art: The Painted Hands of Western Arnhem Land, Australia (2020) (7)
Interpreting the In-between: Rock Art Junctions and Other Small Style Areas between Provinces (2013) (7)
The archaeology of Maliwawa: 25,000 years of occupation in the Wellington Range, Arnhem Land (2018) (7)
Cave use and palaeoecology at Maludong (Red Deer Cave), Yunnan, China (2016) (7)
Correspondence on “Erosion rates and weathering history of rock surfaces associated with Aboriginal rock art engravings (petroglyphs) on Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia, from cosmogenic nuclide measurements” by Brad Pillans and Keith Fifield. Quaternary Science Reviews 69: 98–106 (2014) (6)
RECENT ROCK ART RESEARCH IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND SOUTHERN CHINA (2012) (6)
Identifying ancient religious thought and iconography: problems of definition, preservation, and interpretation (2009) (6)
Kakadu National Park: Rock Art (2020) (6)
Ships and Maritime Activities in the North‐eastern Indian Ocean: re‐analysis of rock art of Tham Phrayanaga (Viking Cave), southern Thailand (2017) (6)
The world of ancient ancestors-Australian aboriginal caves and other realms within rock (2005) (6)
Wollemi petroglyphs, N.S.W., Australia: an unusual assemblage with rare motifs. (2006) (6)
Art and megafauna in the Top End of the Northern Territory, Australia: Illusion or reality? (2017) (6)
Aboriginal rock art depictions of fauna: What can they tell us about the natural history of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area? (2010) (6)
The rock art of Ingaanjalwurr, western Arnhem Land, Australia (2017) (6)
Behaviourally modern at 300,000 BP: was my ancestor brighter than yours? (2006) (6)
What painting? Encountering and interpreting the archaeological record in western Arnhem Land, northern Australia (2020) (6)
Greater Wollemi: a new Australian rock-art area bordering Sydney. (2005) (6)
Marks of possession: the archaeology of territory and cross-cultural encounter in Australia and South Africa (2008) (5)
The missing Macassans: Indigenous sovereignty, rock art and the archaeology of absence (2021) (5)
Rock art of Phrayanaga (Viking) Cave, southern Thailand: the illustration of ancient vessels (2011) (5)
Rock Art of the Kimberley: Proceedings of the Kimberley Society Rock Art Seminar Held at the University of Western Australia, Perth, 10 September 2005 edited by Mike Donaldson & Kevin Kenneally (2009) (5)
Managing the Past in Northern Australia: Challenges and Pitfalls for Indigenous Communities, Rock Art and Cultural Heritage (2016) (5)
History Disappearing: The Rapid Loss of Australian Contact Period Rock Art (2021) (4)
A new recording and interpretation of the rock art of Angono, Rizal, Philippines (2018) (4)
Establishing new ground: Reflexive/Reflective thinking and plotting a future for studying rock art in contemporary contexts (2016) (4)
Gurig National Park: An Archaeologically Significant Region of the Northern Territory (1989) (4)
Archaeological Research in the Keep River Region, Northern Territory (1999) (3)
Kaparlgoo Blue: On the Adoption of Laundry Blue Pigment into the Visual Culture of Western Arnhem Land, Australia (2021) (3)
Differential Australian Cave and Rockshelter use during the Preistocene and Holocene (2012) (3)
Rock Art, Cultural Change, the Media, and National Heritage Identity in the Twenty-First Century (2016) (3)
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' and 'rock-art' among the words we use (2006) (3)
Australian rock art is threatened by a lack of conservation. (2014) (3)
Rock art dating in Australia and beyond: what does it tell us? (2010) (3)
A statement of identity (2006) (2)
Animated animism: what does it actually tell us? (2010) (2)
The re-emergence of nganaparru (water buffalo) into the culture, landscape and rock art of western Arnhem Land (2021) (2)
Theory building and model making in Australian rock art research. (2001) (2)
Presenting rock art through digital film: Recent Australian examples (2012) (2)
The contemporary importance and future of Sulawesi’s ancient rock art (2018) (2)
Andrée Rosenfeld and the Archaeology of Rock-Art1 (1999) (2)
The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Northern Australia. (2016) (2)
An Analysis of Motif Clusters at the Nanguluwurr Rock Art Site, Kakadu National Park, N. T. Australia (2021) (2)
On the rocks: ships at Aboriginal rock-art sites. (2012) (2)
Modern human behaviour and the implications of small-bodied hominin finds from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia (2005) (2)
From rock art to contemporary art: Indigenous depictions of trains, planes and automobiles (2018) (2)
The Angara Rock Art Style and the Emergence of Ethno-Cultural Identity (2018) (2)
Evidence from Past Sparks Controversy in Present (1997) (2)
Chains of Connection (2005) (2)
Rock art and long-distance prehistoric exchange behavior: A case study from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (2020) (2)
Human Dispersal into Australasia (2007) (2)
FIRST DIRECTLY DATED ROCK ART IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS (2021) (1)
Review of Robert Bednarik's 'Australian Apocalypse: The story of Australia's greatest cultural monument'. (2007) (1)
R. Lamilami, 1957–2021: Negotiating two worlds for cultural heritage (2021) (1)
Meaningful choices and relational networks: Analysing western Arnhem Land’s Painted Hand rock art style using chaîne opératoire (2022) (1)
Rethinking the age and unity of large naturalistic animal forms in early Western Arnhem Land Rock Art, Australia (2020) (1)
Enduring Rock Art: Ancient Traditions, Contemporary Expressions. (2006) (1)
Jim Specht’s brilliant career—a tribute. In A Pacific Odyssey: Archaeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific. Papers in Honour of Jim Specht (2004) (1)
Australia's rock art heritage: past knowledge for a richer future (2013) (1)
The archaeology of western Arnhem Land’s rock art (2017) (1)
My body, my art (2006) (1)
Comment on Derek Hodgson and Patricia A. Helvenston's 'The emergence of the representation of animals in palaeoart' (2006) (1)
Carnarvon Gorge: safekeeping a place and Indigenous agency within rock art research and management (2019) (1)
Rock art research for the 21st Century: bringing art, science and people together. (2007) (1)
40,000 year old rock art found in Indonesia (2014) (1)
Doodles, rock art and arousal: an alternative to the entoptic explanation (2008) (1)
Images of introduced watercraft and Europeans on Indigenous material culture from northern Australia and the south-western Pacific region, 1820-1920 (2013) (1)
Marks on and of land: the relationship of rock and bark painting to people, places and the ancestral past. (2005) (1)
Rock-art and relationships: an introduction (2003) (1)
Sacred darkness: a global perspective on the ritual use of caves, by Holley Moyes (2014) (1)
The Rock Art of South and East Asia (2019) (1)
Rock Art of the Kimberley: Proceedings of the Kimberley Society Rock Art Seminar Held at the University of Western Australia, Perth, 10 September 2005 [Book Review] (2009) (1)
Rock-writing, picture-writing, petroglyphs, rock-art; and the importance of the hyphen. (2007) (1)
The Importance of Conserving Rock Art: A Conversation at the Jibbon Petroglyph Royal National Park, Australia (2019) (1)
Rock Art and the Wild Mind. Visual Imagery in Mesolithic Northern Europe (2019) (0)
Aborigines and honey. (2001) (0)
Marra Wonga: Archaeological and contemporary First Nations interpretations of one of central Queensland’s largest rock art sites (2022) (0)
NINE. Rock-Art and Landscapes (2017) (0)
Rock Art and (Re)Production of Narratives: A Cassowary Bone Dagger Stencil Perspective from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (2022) (0)
Rock-art sites spread widely across Australia provide a rich record of culture contact and the fascination of Indigenous artists with the forms of vessels that have borne visitors and settlers to Australian shores (2012) (0)
Why Make Art? (2013) (0)
Jim Specht's Brilliant Career—A Tribute (2004) (0)
Thinking with Animals in Upper Palaeolithic Rock (2009) (0)
Archaeology of animate ancestors and entanglement at Mayarnjarn in the Wellington Range region, Northern Territory (2023) (0)
Review :Rock art of the Kimberley: Proceedings of the Kimberley Society Rock Art Seminar, University of Western Australia,2005 (2009) (0)
Rock-art riches (2000) (0)
Body art: a personal affair, an ancient tradition. (2000) (0)
Rock art conservation and management resource kit (version 1.0) (2012) (0)
Knut Helskog & Bjørnar Olsen (ed.). Perceiving rock art: social and political perspectives. 416 pages, 109 illustrations, 4 tables. 1995. Oslo: Novus Press & The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture; 82-7099-239-9 hardback NOK390. (1996) (0)
Reply to Watchman , Taçon and Aubert q 1 (0)
Neanderthals and us: conflicting new interpretations on our relationship to each other (2010) (0)
Rock Art Science: the Scientific Study of Palaeoart, by Robert Bednarik [Book Review] (2002) (0)
The Creativity Centre: where science meets art (2009) (0)
Shamanism and rock art interpretation (2006) (0)
Narlim’s Fingerprints: Aboriginal Histories and Rock Art (2021) (0)
Get meaner to get leaner (2001) (0)
Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, The hunter, the stag, and the mother of animals: image, monument, and landscape in ancient North Asia (2016) (0)
Overview of Pillar IV: Community involvement and benefits (2018) (0)
The anthropology and archaeology of northwest Yunnan Province rock art in global contexts (2015) (0)
From the beginning - european influences and views on canadian art (2000) (0)
Extraordinary Back-to-Back Human and Animal Figures in the Art of Western Arnhem Land, Australia: One of the World's Largest Assemblages (2022) (0)
Australian Pleistocene rock art (2021) (0)
The Ancestral World: The World of Australian Aboriginal Cave and Rock Paintings (2012) (0)
Eagle's Reach (2006) (0)
A man on the rim (guest editorial) (2010) (0)
Art Parietal: traditions anciennes, expressions contemporaines (2013) (0)
Hand stencils and communal history: A case study from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (2023) (0)
Wollemi rock-art: a new study reveals long lost secrets. (2003) (0)
Color Archaeology: Queensland, the Colors of the Rainbow and Strength of Waanyi in the Northwest (2013) (0)
Majumbu (‘Old Harry’) and the Spencer-Cahill bark painting collection (2023) (0)
Second-hand? Paint chemistry and the age, authenticity and conservation/management of hand stencils from the Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia. (2017) (0)
Pleistocene and Holocene rock art of southern Deccan: characteristics, chronology and significance (2017) (0)
Taçon Beauty Is More Than Skin Deep X-Ray Art Of North Australia Including Kakadu National Park (2017) (0)
A man on the rim (2010) (0)
Namunidjbuk rock art (wariatd euwminwung) (2020) (0)
Recent Rock Art Research in China (2016) (0)
Essay : Chains of connection (2005) (0)
Palaeolithic cave art in Borneo (2018) (0)
The pilot study of two caves, rock shelters and rock art along the Jinsha River (Upstream of the Yangtze) (2011) (0)
Structural Constraints to Art Theory and Meaning A review of Art in Non-Literate Societies: Structural Approaches and Implications for Sociocultural and System Theories, by J.A. Abramson, 2000. Kalamazoo (MI): New Issues Press; ISBN 0-932826-32-6 hardback, US$50; ISBN 0-932826-33-4 paperback, US$25, (2001) (0)
From the iconography of rock art to its anthropological interpretation (2010) (0)
Revisiting Francis Birtles’ painted car: exploring a cross-cultural encounter with Aboriginal artist Nayombolmi at Imarlkba Gold Mine, 1929–1930 (2021) (0)
Barbara Bender (ed).). Landscape: politics and perspectives. (Explorations in Anthropology.) x+351 pages, 58 figures, maps. 1993. Providence (RI) & Oxford: Berg; ISBN 0-85496-852-0 hardback £44.95 & $59.95; ISBN 0-85496-373-1 paperback £17.45 & $22.95. (1994) (0)
Book Review (2008) (0)
Rediscovering Aboriginal Wollemi (2004) (0)
JOSEPHINE FLOOD. Rock art of the Dreamtime . xii+372 pages, 53 colour and 156 black-&-white illustrations, 25 maps, 14 plans, 7 tables. 1997. Sydney: HarperCollins; 0-207-18908-0 paperback Aus$35. (1997) (0)
History of neglect undermines us all (2008) (0)
Review of Thomas Heyd and John Clegg's 'Aesthetics and rock art'. (2005) (0)
Review of Mike Pearson's "In comes I": performance, memory and landscape' (2008) (0)
Book Reviews (2007) (0)
The contemporary cultural significance of Gallery Rock, a petroglyph complex recently found in Wollemi National Park, New South Wales, Australia (2019) (0)
On “Erosion rates and weathering history of rock surfaces associated with Aboriginal rock art engravings (petroglyphs) on Burrup Peninsula, WA, from cosmogenic nuclide measurements” by B. Pillans & K. Fifield. Quaternary Science Reviews 69: 98e106 (2015) (0)
Memes and Rock-art: An Unproven and Unpromising Approach (2009) (0)

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