International Federation of Rock Art Organisations (IFRAO), Australia

Hebei Normal University, China

Email: robertbednarik@hotmail.com

Publications (Selected)

1. Bednarik, R. G. (2025). Laying the Coa controversy to rest. Rock Art Research: The Journal of the Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA), 42(1), 77-90.
2. Bednarik, R. G. (2025). Survey and dating of the Baiyunwan rock art in the Jinsha River Basin, China. ROCK ART RESEARCH, 42(1).
3. Bednarik, R. G. (2024). Rock inscriptions in Western Australia. Rock Art Research: The Journal of the Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA), 41(2), 208-219.
4. Bednarik, R. G. (2024). Shamanism and brain illness in rock art production. Rock Art Research: The Journal of the Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA), 41(1), 88-107.
5. Huisheng, T., Wangdui, X., Jie, Y., Anni, J., Ge, C., Lanying, S., & Bednarik, R. G. (2024). The hand and footprints at Qiusang in Tibet: Recommendations for dating rock art by U–Th. Journal of Archaeological Science, 161, 105899.
6. Bednarik, R. G. (2023). Preserving Australia's cave art. Rock Art Research: The Journal of the Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA), 40(2), 145-158.
7. Polymeris, G. S., Liritzis, I., Iliopoulos, I., Xanthopoulou, V., Bednarik, R. G., Kumar, G., & Vafiadou, A. (2023). Constraining the minimum age of Daraki-Chattan rock art in India by OSL dating and petrographic analyses. Quaternary Geochronology, 78, 101472.
8. Anni, J., Bednarik, R. G., Meng, R., Jianxin, W., & Ge, C. (2023). Scientific research at the Hongshankou petroglyph site complex in the eastern Tianshan Range, northwest China. Rock Art Research: The Journal of the Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA), 40(1), 3-12.
9. Bednarik, R. G. (2023). Stranger than fiction: Distinguishing between anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic rock markings. Rock Art Research: The Journal of the Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA), 40(1), 57-69.
10. Man, L., Jiayangnima, L., Huisheng, T., Yongxian, L., & Bednarik, R. G. (2022). The 2019 survey of petroglyphs in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, western China. Rock Art Research, 39(2), 143-154.
11. Bednarik, R. G. (2022). The dating of rock art and bone by the uranium–thorium method. Rock Art Research, 39(2), 195-204.
12. Bednarik, R. G., Saniotis, A., & Henneberg, M. (2022). Auto-domestication hypothesis and the rise in mental disorders in modern humans. Medical Hypotheses, 164, 110874.
13. Bednarik, R. G. (2022). Pleistocene rock art discovered in central Europe. Rock Art Research: The Journal of the Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA), 39(1), 32-40.
14. Bednarik, R. G. (2021). Direct dating of chinese immovable cultural heritage. Quaternary, 4(4), 42.
15. Bednarik, R. G. (2021). Ethnographic interpretation of rock art through rock inscriptions. Rock Art Research: The Journal of the Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA), 38(1), 70-83.
16. Bednarik, R. G. (2022). About the Origins of the Human Ability to Create Constructs of Reality. Axiomathes, 32(6), 1505-1524.
17. Bednarik, R. G. (2020). Archaeotribology: The interaction of surfaces in relative motion in archaeology. Tribology International, 146, 106198.
    
18. Bednarik, R. G. (2020). The roles of tribology in palaeoart study. Rock Art Research: The Journal of the Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA), 37(2), 217-227.
19. Bednarik, R. G. (2020). First Pleistocene rock art found in central Europe. L'anthropologie, 124(3), 102778.
20. Huisheng, T., Kumar, G., Anni, J., & Bednarik, R. G. (2020). Rock art of heilongjiang province, China. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 31, 102348.
    

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