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List of works by Rebecca Bliege Bird

A Landscape Architecture of Fire: Cultural Emergence and Ecological Pyrodiversity in Australia’s Western Desert

article

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

journal article from 'Human Ecology' published in 2005

Aboriginal burning promotes fine-scale pyrodiversity and native predators in Australia's Western Desert

scientific article published on 02 February 2018

Aboriginal hunting buffers climate-driven fire-size variability in Australia's spinifex grasslands

scientific article (publication date: 26 June 2012)

Animal movements in fire-prone landscapes.

scientific article

Bush tucker, shop tucker: production, consumption, and diet at an Aboriginal outstation

scientific article published in January 2014

Children on the reef : Slow learning or strategic foraging?

scientific article published in June 2002

Climate, landscape diversity, and food sovereignty in arid Australia: The firestick farming hypothesis

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

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

article

Constraints of knowing or constraints of growing? : Fishing and collecting by the children of mer.

scientific article published in June 2002

Cooperating to show that you care: costly helping as an honest signal of fitness interdependence

Diesel and damper: Changes in seed use and mobility patterns following contact amongst the Martu of Western Australia

article

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

Emergent sustainability in open property regimes

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Fire mosaics and habitat choice in nomadic foragers

scientific article published on 27 May 2020

Global patterns in fire leverage: the response of annual area burnt to previous fire

article

Group Structure and Female Cooperative Networks in Australia's Western Desert

scientific article

Interpreting abundance indices: some zooarchaeological implications of Martu foraging

article

Living on a flammable planet: interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessons, prospects and challenges.

scientific article

Martu ethnoarchaeology: Foraging ecology and the marginal value of site structure

article

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

article

Mosaics of fire and water: the co-emergence of anthropogenic landscapes and intensive seed exploitation in the Australian arid zone

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

scientific article published in December 2013

People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

scientific article

People, El Niño southern oscillation and fire in Australia: fire regimes and climate controls in hummock grasslands.

scientific article published on June 2016

Prosocial signaling and cooperation among Martu hunters

Provisioning offspring and others: risk-energy trade-offs and gender differences in hunter-gatherer foraging strategies ⬇️

scientific article published on 12 January 2011

Pyrodiversity and the anthropocene: the role of fire in the broad spectrum revolution

scientific article published on May 2016

Restore the lost ecological functions of people

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

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

article

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

article published in 2002

Signaling Theory, Strategic Interaction, and Symbolic Capital

article published in 2005

Subsistence Transitions and the Simplification of Ecological Networks in the Western Desert of Australia

journal article from 'Human Ecology' published in 2019

The Ethnoarchaeology of Juvenile Foragers: Shellfishing Strategies among Meriam Children

scholarly article by Douglas W. Bird published in December 2000

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

scientific article published on 17 August 2011

The hunting handicap: costly signaling in human foraging strategies

scientific article published in 2001

The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

The marginal valuation of fertility

scientific article published on January 2014

The social significance of subtle signals

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

To kill a kangaroo: understanding the decision to pursue high-risk/high-gain resources

scientific article published on 24 July 2013

Variability in the organization and size of hunter-gatherer groups: Foragers do not live in small-scale societies

scientific article published on 10 April 2019

What Explains Differences in Men's and Women's Production? : Determinants of Gendered Foraging Inequalities among Martu

scientific article

Why Women Hunt

article by Rebecca Bliege Bird & Douglas W. Bird published August 2008 in Current Anthropology

Why women hunt: risk and contemporary foraging in a Western Desert aboriginal community

scientific article

Women, men, risk and energy: a reply to Koster's paradox of Aché foraging

scientific article published on 31 August 2011

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