PUBLICATIONS

*Books

David, B., Barker, B., McNiven, I. 2006. The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra

The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies presents original and provocative views on the complex and dynamic social lives of Indigenous Australians from an historical perspective.  Building on the foundational work of Harry Lourandos, this collection critically examines and challenges traditional approaches which have presented Indigenous Australian pasts as static and tethered to ecological rationalism. The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies reveals the ancient past of Indigenous Australians to be one of long-term changes in social relationships and traditions, as well as the active management and manipulation of the environment. It encourages a deeper appreciation of the ways Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders have engaged with, and constructed their worlds. It solicits a more reflexive understanding of the contemporary political and social context of research and the insidious impacts of colonialist philosophies. In short, it concerns people: both past and present. Ultimately, The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies looks beyond the stereotype of Aboriginal peoples as ‘hunter-gatherers’ and charts new and challenging agendas for Australian Aboriginal archaeology. Go to our website <www.aiatsis.gov.au/asp> for Contents and a sample chapter.

Barker, B. 2004 ‘The Sea People’ - Late Holocene Maritime Specialisation  in the Whitsunday Islands, Central Queensland.  Terra Australis 20, Pandanus Books. Canberra.  

The Sea People: Late Holocene Maritime Specialisation in the Whitsunday Islands, Central Queenland by Bryce Barker The Sea People presents the archaeological data relating to the Holocene occupation of the Whitsuday Islands region of the central Queensland coast. This research provides details of the two oldest sies of Aboriginal occupation on the tropical east coast of Australia, as well as formulating a model of late Holocene change for the wider region. Essentially this work supports the idea of a dynamic Aboriginal society and presents the archaeological evidence for a specialised marine Aboriginal culture continually utilising the marine environment thoughout the Holocene

*Chapters in books/monographs and conference proceedings

B. David, B. Barker,  Max Pivoru, William Pivoru James F. Weiner, D. Simala, J. Sepe, T. Kokents, L. Araho and J. Dop (2008). Living landscapes of the dead: archaeology of the afterworld among the Rumu of Papua New Guinea. In  B. David and J. Thomas (eds), Handbook of Landscape Archaeology, Left Coast Press, San Francisco.

Barker, B. (2008). Text as Archaeological Data: Walter E. Roth and Queensland Archaeology.  In R. McDougall and I. Davidson (eds).  The Roth Family, Anthropology and Colonial Administration.  University College of London Press, London.

Barker, B. (2006).  Hierarchies of Knowledge and the Tyranny of Text: Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Oral Traditions in Australian Archaeological Interpretation.  In, David, B., Barker, B., and McNiven I. (2006). The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies.  Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.

 Barker, B. 1998.  Use and Continuity in the Customary Marine Tenure of the Whitsunday Islands. In Peterson, N. and Rigsby, B. Customary Marine Tenure in Australia.  Oceania Monograph 48, University of Sydney, pp 89-96.

Barker, B. 1998. (in press) A Critique and Discussion of Australian Coastal  Models and Models of Holocene Change. In Hall, J. and McNiven I.,  Proceedings of the Australian Coastal Archaeology Symposium.

Barker, B. 1996.  Maritime Hunter-Gatherers on the Tropical Coast: A Social  Model for Change. In Ulm, S., Lilley, I. and Ross R. (eds.) Australian  Archaeology 95, Proceedings of the 1995 Australian Archaeological  Association Annual Conference. Tempus Vol. 6, pp. 31-43.
 

*Papers in refereed journals

Barker, B. 2007 Massacre, Frontier Conflict and Australian Archaeology  Australian Archaeology 64: 9-14.

 Barker, B. 2006.  The Temporality of Aboriginal Cultural Material on a Deflated Dune System at Abbot Point, Central Queensland Coast.  Australian Archaeology 62: 44-   47.

 Genever, M., Grindrod, J., Barker, B. 2003. Holocene palynology of Whitehaven Swamp, Whitsunday Island, Queensland and implications for the regional archaeological record.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 201: 141-156.

Lamb, L., Barker, B. 2001.  Evidence for early Holocene change in the Whitsunday Islands: A new radiocarbon determination from Nara Inlet 1.  Australian Archaeology 53:42-43.

Barker, B., Sale, K., Watchman, A. 1997.  Authentication of Rock Art in the Whitsunday Islands, Central Queensland Coast, Australia. Rock Art Research 14, pp 113-123

Ulm, S., Barker, B., Border A., Hall, J., McNiven, I., Neal, R. 1995. Pre- European  Coastal Settlement and Use of the Sea: A View from Queensland - (a response to Nicholson and Cane).  Australian Archaeology.

David, B., Collins J., Barker B., Flood, J. 1995. Results from the 1992 Lightning Brothers Archaeological Project, Australian Archaeology.

Barker,  B., Schon, R. 1994. A Preliminary Assessment of the Spatial  Distribution of Stone Artefacts from the South Molle Island Aboriginal  Quarry, Whitsunday Islands, Central Queensland Coast. Memoirs of the  Queensland Museum 37 (1).

Barker, B.C. 1993. Early human exploitation of island environments within the  Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Reef Research Vol 3. No3.

Barker, B.C. 1991. Nara Inlet 1:coastal resource use and the Holocene marine  transgression in the Whitsunday Islands, central Queensland.  Archaeology in Oceania.26.

Barker, B.C. 1989. Nara Inlet 1:A Holocene sequence from the Whitsunday  Islands, Central Queensland Coast. Queensland Archaeological Research.  Vol 6.
 

*Review articles

CURRENT RESEARCH

The Human Antiquity of the Central Queensland Coastal Hinterland:  An archaeological investigation of the prehistoric lifeways of mainland peoples in the Whitsunday region.

HERITAGE CONSULTANCY

FIELD WORK PICTURES

Taking pollen cores sample in Whitehaven Swamp, Whitsunday Island

Excavations at Macona Inlet 1 on Hook Island