California Projects:
Cache Cave in Context (Lead Principle Investigator, with co PIs, Dr. John Johnson, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History/University of California, Santa Barbara; Julienne Bernard, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles). 2012 to present
Enculturating environments: the archaeology of interior South-Central California (Lead Principle Investigator with co PIs Dr. Fraser Sturt, University of Southampton; Julienne Bernard, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA). 2007 to present.
California Outputs:
*In Press. Drawing Upon the Past: Temporal Ontology and Mythological Ideology in South-Central Californian Rock-Art. Cambridge Archaeological Journal.
* In Press. Transmorphic Being, Corresponding Affect: Ontology and Rock-Art in South-Central California. Ben Alberti, Andrew Jones, and Joshua Pollard (eds.) Archaeology After Interpretation: materials, relations, becomings. Left Coast Press; Walnut Creek, California.
*In Press. Legitimizing Space: Art and the Politics of Space. 2013, 'Submitted for Review' to the themed issue, Art Makes Society, World Art (3).
* In Press. Bernard, Julienne, D.W. Robinson, and Fraser F. Sturt. 2013. Points of Refuge in the South Central California Colonial Hinterlands. In New Perspectives on Spanish Missions in the Indigenous Landscape, edited by Lee Panich and Tsim Schneider. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
* Forthcoming. Robinson, DW 2013. From Ethnohistory to Ethnogenesis: A historiography of Hunter-Gatherer Cultural Anthropology in California and the Great Basin. In V. Cummings, P. Jordan and M. Zvelebil (eds). The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers. Oxford: OUP.
* “… a chronic reciprocity…” — partible time and uncertainty in a California midden; or, ‘how I wished for stratigraphy last summer.’ ‘Submitted for review’ in James Dixon (editor) Fragmenting Archaeology, or; taking a leaf out of Shanks and Tilley’s book. Contemporary and Historical Archaeology Series edited by Josh Pollard and Dan Hicks, British Archaeological Reports.
* 2012. Robinson, DW, Wendy Whitby, and Michelle Wienhold. California: from boundaries to networks. In Jones, Terry L. and Jennifer Perry (editors) Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology, pp. 273-293. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, California.
* 2011 DW Robinson, Jennifer Perry, Gale Grasse-Sprague (editors). Landscape Archaeology in Southern and South-Central California. Thematic Issue, California Archaeology 3:1
* 2011. Placing Ideology: Rock Art Landscapes of Inland and Interior South-Central California. California Archaeology 3(1):31-52.
* 2011. Robinson, DW, Jennifer Perry, Gale Grasse-Sprague. Preface: Landscape Archaeology in Southern and South-Central California. California Archaeology 3:1:5-10.
* 2011. Sutton, Mark Q., DW Robinson, Gale Grasse-Sprague, and Jack Sprague. Cupules as Containers: A Hypothesis. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 45(3 and 4):87-93.
* 2010. Land use, land ideology: an integrated Geographic Information Systems analysis of the Emigdiano Chumash rock-art, South-Central California. American Antiquity 74(4):292-818.
* 2010. Resolving archaeological and ethnographic tensions: a case study from South-Central California, pp 84-109. In D. Garrow and T. Yarrow (editors), Archaeological Anthropology: understanding similarities, exploring differences. Oxford: Oxbow.
* 2009. Reeves, D, R. Bury and DW Robinson. Invoking Occam’s Razor: Experimental Pigment Processing and an hypothesis concerning Emigdiano Chumash rock-art. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 29(1):59-67.
* 2008. Robinson, DW and Fraser Sturt. Towards Articulating rock-art with archaeology: an interim report of the Pinwheel Cave rock-art and bedrock mortar complex (CA-KER-5836 & 5837), Kern Country, California. Kern County Archaeological Society Journal 10:25-44.
* 2004. The Mirror of the Sun: Surface, Mineral Applications, and Interface in California Rock Art, pp 91-106. In Nicole Boivin and Mary Ann Owoc (editors) Soils, Stones and Symbols: archaeological and anthropological perspectives on the mineral world. University College London Press: London.
* 2004. Tierra Incognita: rock art, landscape biography, and archaeological blind-spots – a case study from South-Central California. American Indian Rock Art (30):43-56.
British Prehistory Projects:
Stonehenge Riverside Project: 2007 to 2011. PI's Mike Parker-Pearson(UCL), Julian Thomas (Manchester Univeristy), Colin Richards (Manchester University), Joshua Pollard (Southampton University), and Kate Wellham (Bournemouth University).
East of Avebury. 2007 to 2008. Co-PI with Joshua Pollard (Southampton University) Michael Rosamund Cleal and Nick Snashall (Alexander Keiller Museum).
British Prehistory Outputs:
* Robinson, D.W. and Olaf Bayer. Forthcoming. Excavations at the Stonehenge Avenue ‘elbow’. In Parker Pearson, M., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J., Tilley, C. and Welham, K. (eds). Stonehenge for the Ancestors. Prehistoric Society monograph. Oxford: Oxbow.
* Pollard, Joshua and D.W. Robinson. Forthcoming. Excavations at Woodhenge. Forthcoming. In Parker Pearson, M., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J., Tilley, C. and Welham, K. (eds) Durrington Walls and Woodhenge: a place for the living, Vol. 1. Prehistoric Society monograph. Oxford: Oxbow.
* Pollard, Joshua, D.W. Robinson, and Helen Wickstead. Forthcoming. Excavations South of Woodhenge. In Parker Pearson, M., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J., Tilley, C. and Welham, K. (eds) Durrington Walls and Woodhenge: a place for the living, Vol. 1. Prehistoric Society monograph. Oxford: Oxbow
* 2012 Pollard, Joshua, Michael Allen, Rosamund Cleal, Nick Snashall, Jim Gunter, Vaughan Roberts and D.W. Robinson. East of Avebury: tracing prehistoric activity and environmental change in the environs of Avebury henge (excavations at Rough Leaze 2007). Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural History Magazine 105:1-20.
* 2004. A feast of reason and a flow of soul: the archaeological antiquarianism of Sir Richard Colt Hoare. In Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, (96):111-128
Modern World Projects
Project Beaumont Hamel: the Archaeology of the Great War. With Andrew Robertshaw, Steve Roberts, Tal Simmons, Peter Cross, and Mark Khan.
The Archaeology of Nuclear Landscapes (Co-Principle Investigator with Vicki Cummings, University of Central Lancashire). 2010 to present.
Exporting segregation, integrating communities: Tyntesfield World War II army hospital (Co-Principle Investigator with James Dixon, Senior Archaeologist, Museum of London). 2007 to 2009.
Peel Park Community Project: the Archaeology of Football. 2011-2012. With Co-PI Richard Peterson (University of Central Lancashire). 2010 to 2012
The Archaeology of Graffiti: The Art of St. Rock Street (Barcelona Spain). 2004. With Hector Orengo, Catalan Institute of Archaeology. 2004 to 2006
Modern World Outputs:
* 2012. Peterson, Richard and D.W. Robinson. Excavations and the afterlife of a professional football stadium, Peel Park, Accrington, Lancashire: towards an archaeology of football. World Archaeology 44(2): 263-279. Special volume: The Archaeology of Sport and Pastimes.
* 2008. Orengo, HA and DW Robinson. Contemporary engagements within corridors of the past: temporality and the urban space of St. Rock Street, Barcelona. Journal of Material Culture 12(3):267-286.
India Projects
Birappa Rock Shelter Excavations and Sanganakallu-Kupgal rock-art documentation, Bellary District, South-Central India Jan-Feb ’04: (PIs Ravi Korisettar, Nicole Boivin, Dorian Fuller). Excavations of multi-period rock shelter plus survey & digital documentation (including photography/mapping) of 200 rock-art panels.
India Outputs:
* A Historiography of the Neolithic Rock-Art of Karnataka: legacies, understandings, and new directions. ‘Submitted for review’ in Ravi Korisettar, Iranna, K. Pattar, Ashok, V. Shettar, Varija, R. Bolar, Siladhar, Y. Mugali (editors), Historiography of Karnataka: archaeology and history. The Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Suvarna Karnataka and the Department of History and Archaeology.
* 2008 Robinson, DW, R. Korisettar, and J. Koshey. Metanarratives and the (re)invention of the Neolithic: A case study in rock-art from Birappa and Hiregudda Hill, South-Central India. Journal of Social Archaeology 8(3):355-379.
* 2007. Boivin, NL, A Brumm, H. Lewis. & DW Robinson. Sensual, material, and technological understandings: exploring prehistoric soundscapes in South India. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 13:267-294.
* Robinson, DW and J. Koshy. 2004. The Birappa Rock Shelter Excavations, Bellary District, India: preliminary report. Preliminary report prepared for the Sanganakallu-Kupgal project monograph. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
* Robinson, DW and Ramadas. 2004. Rock Art of Hiregudda and Sannarahcama. Preliminary report prepared for the Sanganakallu-Kupgal project monograph. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.