All Stories

  1. Disturbance, Complexity, Scale: New Approaches to the Study of Human–Environment Interactions*

    Article • Annual Review of Anthropology, October 2015, Annual Reviews

    Rebecca Bird

  2. Conservation or Co-evolution? Intermediate Levels of Aboriginal Burning and Hunting Have Positive Effects on Kangaroo Populations in Western Australia

    Article • Human Ecology, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rebecca Bird

  3. Bush Tucker, Shop Tucker: Production, Consumption, and Diet at an Aboriginal Outstation

    Article • Ecology of Food and Nutrition, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Rebecca Bird

  4. The marginal valuation of fertility

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, January 2014, Elsevier

    Rebecca Bird

  5. Niche construction and Dreaming logic: aboriginal patch mosaic burning and varanid lizards (Varanus gouldii) in Australia

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Rebecca Bird

  6. Megafauna in a continent of small game: Archaeological implications of Martu Camel hunting in Australia's Western Desert

    Article • Quaternary International, May 2013, Elsevier

    Rebecca Bird

  7. Aboriginal hunting buffers climate-driven fire-size variability in Australia’s spinifex grasslands

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Rebecca Bird

  8. Risky Pursuits: Martu Hunting and the Effects of Prey Mobility: Reply to Ugan and Simms

    Article • American Antiquity, January 2012, Society for American Archaeology

    Rebecca Bird

  9. The hierarchy of virtue: mutualism, altruism and signaling in Martu women's cooperative hunting

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, January 2012, Elsevier

    Rebecca Bird

  10. Interpreting abundance indices: some zooarchaeological implications of Martu foraging

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, December 2010, Elsevier

    Rebecca Bird

  11. Burning and Hunting in Australia’s Western Desert

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rebecca Bird

  12. What Explains Differences in Men’s and Women’s Production?

    Article • Human Nature, May 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rebecca Bird

  13. The “fire stick farming” hypothesis: Australian Aboriginal foraging strategies, biodiversity, and anthropogenic fire mosaics

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2008, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Rebecca Bird

  14. Why Women Hunt

    Article • Current Anthropology, August 2008, University of Chicago Press

    Rebecca Bird

  15. Group Structure and Female Cooperative Networks in Australia’s Western Desert

    Article • Human Nature, July 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rebecca Bird

  16. Fishing and the Sexual Division of Labor among the Meriam

    Article • American Anthropologist, September 2007, Wiley

    Rebecca Bird

  17. Human hunting seasonality

    Article • November 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Rebecca Bird

  18. Aboriginal Burning Regimes and Hunting Strategies in Australia’s Western Desert

    Article • Human Ecology, August 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rebecca Bird

  19. Signaling Theory, Strategic Interaction, and Symbolic Capital1

    Article • Current Anthropology, April 2005, University of Chicago Press

    Rebecca Bird

  20. Evolutionary and Ecological Understandings of the Economics of Desert Societies Comparing the Great Basin USA and the Australian Deserts

    Article • January 2005, Wiley

    Rebecca Bird

  21. Risk and reciprocity in Meriam food sharing

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, July 2002, Elsevier

    Rebecca Bird, Dr Geoff Kushnick

  22. Children on the reef

    Article • Human Nature, June 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rebecca Bird

  23. Constraints of knowing or constraints of growing?

    Article • Human Nature, June 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rebecca Bird

  24. Showing off, handicap signaling, and the evolution of men's work

    Article • Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews, January 2002, Wiley

    Rebecca Bird

  25. The hunting handicap: costly signaling in human foraging strategies

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, June 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rebecca Bird

  26. The Ethnoarchaeology of Juvenile Foragers: Shellfishing Strategies among Meriam Children

    Article • Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, December 2000, Elsevier

    Rebecca Bird

  27. Delayed Reciprocity and Tolerated Theft: The Behavioral Ecology of Food-Sharing Strategies

    Article • Current Anthropology, February 1997, University of Chicago Press

    Rebecca Bird

  28. Contemporary Shellfish Gathering Strategies among the Meriam of the Torres Strait Islands, Australia: Testing Predictions of a Central Place Foraging Model

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, January 1997, Elsevier

    Rebecca Bird