罗伯特·贝德纳里克，1944年出生于奥地利，1970年至今居于澳大利亚。主要研究方向为旧石器时代艺术和史前岩画，经其在实践中发展起来的微腐蚀岩画测年法（Microerosion）是全球范围内唯一直接用于岩刻画测年方法。现为国际岩画组织联合会（IFRAO）主席、《Rock Art Research》等杂志主编，15vip太阳集团讲座教授。

代表性论著：

2000. Crossing the Timor Sea by Middle Palaeolithic raft. Anthropos 95: 37-47.

2000. Age estimates for the petroglyph sequence of Inca Huasi, Mizque, Bolivia. Andean Past 6: 277-287.

2001. The oldest known rock art in the world. Anthropologie 39(2): 81-89.

2001. Replicating the first known sea travel by humans: the Lower Pleistocene crossing of Lombok Strait. Human Evolution 16(3-4): 229-242.

2001. Rock art science: the scientific study of palaeoart. Brepols, Turnhout.

2002. First dating of Pilbara petroglyphs. Records of the Western Australian Museum 20: 414-429.

2002. The dating of rock art: a critique. Journal of Archaeological Science 29(11): 1213-1233.

2002. The oldest surviving rock art: a taphonomic review. Origini 24: 335-349.

2002. Paläolithische Felskunst in Deutschland? Archäologische Informationen 25(1-2): 107-117.

2003. Seafaring in the Pleistocene. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 13(1): 41-66.

2003. A figurine from the African Acheulian. Current Anthropology 44(3): 405-413.

2004. Interpretatsiya dannykh o proiskhozhdeii iskusstva (Interpreting the evidence for art origins). Arkheologiy, etnografiy i antropologiy Evraziy (Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia) 20(4): 35-47.

2005. Middle Pleistocene beads and symbolism. Anthropos 100(2): 537-552.

2006. The Middle Palaeolithic engravings from Oldisleben, Germany. Anthropologie 44(2): 113-121.

2006. Australian apocalypse. The story of Australia’s greatest cultural monument. Occasional AURA Publication 14, Australian Rock Art Research Association, Melbourne.

2007. The Late Pleistocene cultural shift in Europe. Anthropos 102(2): 347-370.

2008. Rock art. In D. M. Pearsall (ed.), Encyclopedia of archaeology, pp. 1940-1952. Academic Press, New York.

2008. The origins of symboling. Signs 2: 82-113,

2008. Cupules. Rock Art Research 25(1): 61-100.

2008. Pedogenetic dating of loess strata. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(12): 3124-3129.

2008. The mythical Moderns. Journal of World Prehistory 21(2): 85-102.

2008. The domestication of humans. Anthropologie 46(1): 1-17.

2008. Zur Seefahrt im Paläolithikum. Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift 49(3): 257-270.

2009. Fluvial erosion of inscriptions and petroglyphs at Siega Verde, Spain. Journal of Archaeological Science 36: 2365–2373.

2010. Pleistocene rock art in Australia. Anthropos 105(1): 3-12.

2010. Mysterious cup marks: proceedings of the First International Cupule Conference. BAR International Series 2073, Archaeopress, Oxford

2010. Rock art glossary: a multilingual dictionary, second edition. Occasional AURA Publication 16, Australian Rock Art Research Association, Inc., Melbourne.

2011. Palaeoart of the Lower Palaeolithic. In Lybov Ermolenko (ed.), Археология Южной Сибири. К 80-летию Я. А. Шера (Yakov Sher 80th Anniversary Volume), pp. 31-35. Kemerovo State University, Kemerovo.

2011. The human condition. Springer, New York. Hardcover.

2011. The origins of human modernity. Humanities 1(1): 1-53.

2012. The utility of schist in rock art studies. Horizons in Earth Science Research 8: 1-36.

2012. The Arabian horse in the context of world rock art. In M. Khan (ed.), The Arabian horse: origin, development and history, pp. 397-425. Layan Cultural Foundation, Riyadh.

2012. The nexus between neurodegeneration and advanced cognitive abilities Anthropos 107(2): 511-527.

2013. On the neuroscience of rock art interpretation. Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture 6(1): 37–40.

2013. Brain disorder and rock art. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 23(1): 69-81.

2013. Creating the human past. Archaeopress, Oxford.

2013. Myths about rock art. Journal of Literature and Art Studies 3(8): 482-500.

2013-14. Archaeology and rock art science. Almogaren 44-45: 57-72.

2014. Paleoart studies: scientific methods. In D. Fiore, I. Domingo and J. McDonald (eds), Encyclopedia of global archaeology, Archaeology of Art Section, pp. 5734-5740. Springer, New York.

2014. Australian paleoart. Encyclopedia of global archaeology, Geographical and Cultural Overview Essays, edited Marcel Otte and Rebecca Miller, pp. 677-686. Springer, New York.

2014. Exograms. Rock Art Research 31(1): 47-62.

2014. Doing with less: hominin brain atrophy. HOMO — Journal of Comparative Human Biology 65: 433-449.

2014. The first mariners, 1st edn. Research India Press, New Delhi.

2014. The beginnings of maritime travel. Advances in Anthropology 4: 209-221.

2014. The first mariners, 2nd edn. Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken, Germany.

2015. The tribology of cupules. Geological Magazine 152(4): 758-765.

2015. An etiology of Theory of Mind in deep time. In E. Sherwood (ed.), Theory of Mind: development in children, brain mechanisms and social implications, pp. 115-144. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York.

2015. Palaeoart of the Lower Palaeolithic. Progress in Arts and Humanities 1(1): 1-12.

2015. Prehistoria sin nacionalismo (Pre-History without nationalism). ISTOR: Revista de Historia Internacional 15(60): 13-36.

2015. Kinetic energy metamorphosis of rocks. In Benjamin Veress and Jozsi Szigethy (eds), Horizons in Earth Science Research 13: 119-134. NOVA Science Publishers, New York.

2015. Hominin mind and creativity. In Barbora Půtová and Václav Soukup (eds), The genesis of creativity and the origin of the human mind, pp. 35-44. Department of Culturology, The Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Karolinum Press, Prague.

2015. The first mariners, 3rd edn (e-book). Bentham Science Publishers, Oak Park, IL; eISBN: 978-1-68108-019-2, ISBN: 978-1-68108-020-8.

2016. Art in caves. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 60 (Suppl. 2): 139-152.

2016. Understanding human behavior: theories, patterns and developments (editor). Perspectives on Cognitive Psychology, Nova Biomedical, New York.

2016. Paleoart and materiality: the scientific study of rock art. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, Oxford.

2016. Rock art and pareidolia. Rock Art Research 33(2): 167-181.

2016. The science of cupules. Archaeometry 58(6): 899-911.

2016. Myths about rock art. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, Oxford.

2016. The earliest known logboats of China. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 45(2): 441-466.

2017. Palaeoart of the Ice Age. Éditions universitaires européennes, Saarbrücken.

2017. Equine petroglyphs in Europe. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 13: 222-228.

2017. Aniconism and the origins of palaeoart. Religion 47(3): 353-365.

2017. Pareidolia and rock art interpretation. Anthropologie 55(1–2): 101–117.

2017. Scientific investigations into Saudi Arabian rock art: a review. Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 17(4): 43-59.

2018. The 2015 rock art missions in China. Rock Art Research 35(1)：25-34.

2018. Direct dating of petroglyphs in Rio Grande Do Norte, Brazil. Rock Art Research 35(1)：85-97.

2018. The First Saudi Archaeology Convention. Rock Art Research 35(1)：115-116.

2018. `Living` rock art traditions in Saudi Arabia. International Newsletter on Rock Art 82：1-5.

2019. Advances in microerosion analysis. Rock Art Research 36(1)：43-48.

2019. Natural or artificial: Fujian rock markings. Rock Art Research 36(2)：227-230.

2019. Rcok metamorphosis by kinetic energy. Emerging Science Journal 3(5)：293-302.

2019. Scientific study of the cupules in Daraki-Chattan Cave, India. Rock Art Research 36(2)：148-156.

2019. Tribology in geology and archaeology. Nova Science Publishers, New York.

2019. Compressive-tensile rock makings. Geological Magazine 156(12)：2113-2116.

2020. The domestication of humans. Routledge, Abingdon and New York.

2020. The 2017 rock art mission in Hubei Province, China. Rock Art Research 37(1)：67-73.

2020. Archaeotribology: the interaction of surfaces in relative motion in archaeology. Tribology International 141.

2020. Rock art of the Heilongjiang Province, China. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 31.

2020. Petroglyphs of Victoria. proceeedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 132(1)：7-11.

2020. First Pleistocene rock art found in central Europe. L`Anthropologie 124(3).

2021. Rock art dating by 230Th/234U analysis: an appraisal of Chinese case studies. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 13(1)：1-10.

2021. Ethnographic interpretation of rock art through rock inscriptions. Rock Art Research 38(1)：70-83.

2021. About the origins of the human ability to create constructs of reality. Axiomathes 31：1-20.

2021. Direct dating of Chinese immovable cultural heritage. Quaternary 4.

2022. The 2019 survey of petroglyphs in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, west China. Rock Art Research 39(2)：143-154.

2022. The dating of rock art and bone by the uranium-thorium. Rock Art Research 39(2)：195-204.

2022. The travertine hand and footprints at Qiusang, Tibet. Rock Art Research 39(2)：215-218.

2023. Stranger than fiction: distinguishing between anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic rock markings. Rock Art Research 40(1)：57-69.

2023. The domestication of humans. Encyclopedia 3(3)：947-955.

2023. Preseving Australia`s cave art. Rock Art Reserch 40(2)：145-158.

2023. Cupules in Cuba: a review. Rock Art Research 40(2)：186-204.

2023. Constraining the minimum age of Daraki-Chattan rock art by OSL dating and petrographic analyses. Quaternary Geochronology 78.

2024. The hand and footprints at Qiusang in Tibet: recommendations for dating rack art by U-Th. Journal of Archaeological Science 161(105899).

2024. The Lower Paleolithic engravings of Bilzingsleben, Germany. Encyclopedia 2024(4)：695-708.

2024. Shamanism and brain illness in rock art production. Rock Art Research 41(1)：88-107.