Bliege Bird, R. and D. Bird  (2008)  Why women hunt: risk and contemporary foraging in a Western Desert aboriginal community. Current Anthropology 49(4): 49(4):655-693. pdf

1. Bliege Bird, R., D.W. Bird, B. Codding, C. Parker, and J.H. Jones (2008) The fire stick farming hypothesis: anthropogenic fire mosaics, biodiversity and Australian aboriginal foraging strategies.  Proc Nat Acad Sci 105(39):14796-14801. pdf
   

Scelza, B. and R. Bliege Bird  (2008) Group structure and female cooperative networks in Australia’s Western Desert.  Human Nature 19:231-248. pdf

Bird, D. and R. Bliege Bird  (2008)  Competing to be leaderless: Food sharing and magnanimity among Martu aborigines.  In: The Emergence Of Leadership: Transitions In Decision Making From Small-Scale To Middle-Range Societies.  J. Kantner, K. Vaughn and J. Eerkins, eds. (in press). Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.  pdf

Bliege Bird, R.  (2007) Fishing and the sexual division of labor among the Meriam.  American Anthropologist 109:442-451. pdf

Bliege Bird, R. and E.A. Smith  (2005) Signaling theory, strategic interaction, and symbolic capital.  Current Anthropology 46(2): 221-248. pdf

Smith, E.A. and R. Bliege Bird  (2005) Costly signaling and cooperative behavior. In: Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, and Ernst Fehr (eds.) Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: On the Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life, pp 115-148. MIT Press: Cambridge.  pdf

 Bird, D.W., R. Bliege Bird, and C.H. Parker  (2005) Aboriginal burning regimes and hunting strategies in Australia’s Western Desert.  Human Ecology 33: 443-464. pdf

 Bliege Bird, R. and D. Bird  (2005)  Human hunting seasonality.  In: Primate Seasonality, ed. D. Brockman and C. van Schaik, pp 243-266. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. pdf

 Bird, D.W.  and R. Bliege Bird  (2005).  Mardu children’s hunting strategies in the Western Desert, Australia: foraging and the evolution of human life histories.  In Hunter Gatherer Childhoods, B.S. Hewlett and M.E. Lamb eds, pp 129-146.  New York: Aldine de Gruyter. pdf

 Smith, E.A. and R. Bliege Bird and D.W. Bird  (2003) The benefits of costly signaling: Meriam turtle hunters Behavioral Ecology 14:116-126. pdf

 Bliege Bird, R. and D. Bird (2002) Constraints of knowing or constraints of growing? Fishing and collecting by the children of Mer. Human Nature 13:239-267. pdf

Bird, D.W., R. Bliege Bird, and J.L. Richardson (2004) Meriam ethnoarchaeology: shellfishing and shellmiddens. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series 3(1): 183-197. pdf

 Carter, M., A. Barham, S. O’Connor, P. Veth, D.W. Bird, and R. Bliege Bird (2004) The Meriam Islands archaeological project: preliminary results of excavations on Mer and Dauar, eastern Torres Strait. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series 3(1): 164-182.

 Bird, D.W, R. Bliege Bird, and C. H. Parker (2003) Women who hunt with fire: Aboriginal resource use and fire regimes in Australia's Western Desert.  Arid Lands Newsletter 54: ISSN 1092-5481.

 Bird, D. and R. Bliege Bird (2002) Children on the reef: slow learning or strategic foraging. Human Nature 13:269-297. pdf

 Hawkes, K. and R. Bliege Bird (2002) Showing off, handicap signaling, and the evolution of men’s work. Evolutionary Anthropology 11:58-67.  pdf

 Bliege Bird, R., D.W. Bird, Geoff Kushnick, and E.A. Smith (2002) Risk and reciprocity in Meriam food sharing. Evolution and Human Behavior 23:297-321.  pdf

 Bliege Bird, R., E.A. Smith, and D.W. Bird (2001) The hunting handicap: costly signaling in male foraging strategies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 50:9-19.  pdf

 Smith, E.A. and R. Bliege Bird (2000) Turtle hunting and tombstone opening: public generosity as costly signaling. Evolution and Human Behavior 21:245-261.  pdf

Bird, D.W. and R. Bliege Bird (2000) The Ethnoarchaeology of Juvenile Foragers: shellfishing strategies among Meriam children. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 19:461-476.  pdf

Bliege Bird, R. (1999)  Cooperation and conflict: The behavioral ecology of the sexual division of labor. Evolutionary Anthropology 8:65-75.  pdf

Bliege Bird, R. and D.W. Bird (1997) Delayed reciprocity and tolerated theft: the behavioral ecology of food sharing strategies. Current Anthropology 38(1):49-78.  pdf

Bird, D.W. and R. Bliege Bird (1997) Contemporary shellfish gathering strategies among the Meriam of the Torres Strait Islands, Australia: testing predictions of a central place foraging model. Journal of Archaeological Science 24:39-63.