Academic Staff

Prof Robert H. Layton - all publications

Authored book

• Layton, R.H. (2006). Order and anarchy: civil society, social disorder and war. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Stone, R.P., Layton, R.H. & Thomas, J. (2000). Destruction and conservation of cultural property. London: Routledge.
• Layton, R.H. (1997). An introduction to theory in anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Layton, R.H. (1994). Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions. London: Routledge.

Chapter in book

• Layton, R. (2011). Aesthetics - the approach from anthropology. In Philosphical Aesthetics and Aesthetic Psychology. Schellekens, E. & Goldie, P. Oxford University Press. 208-222.
• Layton, R. & O'Hara, S. (2010). human social evolution: a comparison of hunter-gatherer and chimpanzee social organisation. In Social brain, distributed mind. Dunbar, R., Gamble, C. & Gowlett, J. British Academy. 158: 85-115.
• Layton, R.H. (2008). Aboriginal versus western creationism. In The edge of reason? Science and religion in modern society. Bentley, R.A. London: Continuum Press. 31-38.
• Layton, R.H. (2008). Crisp snapshots and fuzzy trends. In Time and change: archaeological and anthropological perspectives on the long term. Papagianni, D., Layton, R. & Maschner, H. Oxford: Oxbow. 1-13.
• Layton, R.H. (2008). What can ethnography tell us about human social evolution?. In Early human kinship: from sex to social reproduction. Allen, N., Callan, H., Dunbar, R. & James, W. Malden, MA (USA): Blackwell. 113-127.
• Layton, R.H. (2005). Are immediate-return strategies adaptive?. In Property and equality volume 1: ritualisation, sharing, egalitarianism. Widlok, T. & Tadesse, W. New York: Berghahn. 1: 130-150.
• Layton, R.H. (2004). The politics of indigenous 'Creationism' in Australia. In The cultures of creationism. Anti-evolutionism in English-speaking countries. Coleman, S. & Carlin, L. Aldershot: Ashgate. 145-164.
• Layton, R.H. (2003). What creates village democracy in (Western) Europe? A comparative study. In Distinct inheritances: property, family and community in a changing Europe. Grandits, H. & Heady, P. Münster: LIT. 97-113.
• Layton, R.H. (1997). Representing and translating people's place in the landscape of northern Australia. In After writing culture. James, A., Hockey, J. & Dawson, A. London: Routledge. 1: 122-143.
• Layton, R.H. (1995). Relating to the Country in the Western Desert. In The Anthropology of Landscape: Prespectives on Place and Space. Hirsch, E. & O'Hanlon, M. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 210-231.

Journal Article

• Layton, R., O'Hara, S. & Bilsborough, A. (2012). Antiquity and social functions of multi-level social organisation among hunter-gatherers. International Journal of Primatology 33(5): 1215-1245.
• Rowley-Conwy, PA & Layton, RH (2011). Foraging and farming as niche construction: stable and unstable adaptations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366(1566): 849-862
• Layton, R. (2010). Why social scientists don't like Darwin and what can be done about it. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 8(2): 139-152.
• Aureli, F., Schaffner, C., Boesch, C., Bearder, S., Call, J., Chapman, C., Connor, R., di Fiore A., Dunbar, R., Henzi, P., Holekamp, K., Korstjens, A., Layton, R., Lehmann, J., Manson, J., Ramos-Fernandez, G., Strier, K. & van Schaik, C. (2008). Fission-fusion dynamics new research frameworks. Current Anthropology 49(4): 627-654.
• Sauvet, G., Layton, R., Lenssen-Erz, T., Taçon, P. & Wlodarczyk, A. (2006). La structure iconographique d'un art rupestre est-elle une clef pour son interprétation?. Zephyrus 59: 97-110.
• Layton, R.H. (2003). Agency, structuration and complexity. Complex systems and archaeology. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press (Foundations of Archaeological Enquiry series) 103-109.
• Layton, R.H. (2003). Art and agency - a reassessment. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 9(3): 447-464.