Rowland, Michael J., and Kerkhove, Raymond C. (2022) Evidence of external contact between the Pacific Basin and the east coast of Australia during the Holocene: A review. Queensland Archaeological Research, 25. pp. 47-66.

Rowland, Michael, Shaw, Ben, and Ulm, Sean (2021) Maritime coastal and island societies of Australia and New Guinea. In: McNiven, Ian J., and David, Bruno, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea. Oxford Handbooks Online . Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K..

Rowland, Michael (2020) Book review of "The Great Barrier Reef: biology, environment and management" edited by Hutchings, Michael Kingsford and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg. Melbourne, VIC, CSIRO, 2019. ISBN: 978-0-367-17428. Queensland Review, 27 (2). pp. 202-204.

Rowland, Michael J. (2020) “By savage hands his steps were stayed!”: life and death on the Percy Isles, 1854. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 124. pp. 63-79.

Rowland, Michael J. (2018) 65,000 years of isolation in Aboriginal Australia or continuity and external contacts? An assessment of the evidence with an emphasis on the Queensland coast. Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia, 42. pp. 211-240.

Rowland, Michael J., Wright, Shelley, and Baker, Robert (2015) The timing and use of offshore islands in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Province, Queensland. Quaternary International, 385. pp. 154-165.

Rowland, Michael J., Ulm, Sean, and Roe, Meredith (2014) Approaches to monitoring and managing Indigenous Australian coastal cultural heritage places. Queensland Archaeological Research, 17. pp. 37-48.

Rowland, Michael J., Ulm, Sean, and Reid, Jill (2014) Compliance with Indigenous cultural heritage legislation in Queensland: perceptions, realities and prospects. Environmental and Planning Law Journal, 31 (5). pp. 329-351.

Rowland, Michael J. (2014) Review of 'Geoarchaeology of Aboriginal Landscapes in Semi-Arid Australia' by Simon J. Holdaway and Patricia C. Fanning. Historic Environment, 26 (2). pp. 124-125.

Rowland, Michael J. (2013) Geocaching and cultural heritage. Artefact, 36. pp. 3-9.

Rowland, Michael John, and Ulm, Sean (2012) Key issues in the conservation of the Australian coastal archaeological record: natural and human impacts. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 16 (2). pp. 159-171.

Rowland, Michael J. (2011) A case for mandatory reporting [comment on "The application of assessment of cumulative impacts in cultural heritage management: a critique' by Luke Godwin]. Australian Archaeology, 73. pp. 93-94.

Rowland, Michael J., and Ulm, Sean (2011) Indigenous fish traps and weirs of Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research, 14. pp. 1-58.

Rowland, Michael J. (2010) Will the sky fall in? Global warming: an alternative view. Antiquity, 84 (326). pp. 1163-1171.

Rowland, Mike (2008) Saving the past from the future. Historic Environment, 21 (1). pp. 19-29.

Rowland, Michael J. (2008) Colonization, environment and insularity: prehistoric island use in the Great Barrier Reef Province, Queensland, Australia. In: Connolly, James, and Campbell, Matthew, (eds.) Comparative Island Archaeologies. BAR International Series (1829). British Archaeological Reports, Oxford, UK, pp. 85-104.

Rowland, Michael J. (2008) Landscape and climate change. In: David, Bruno, and Thomas, Julian, (eds.) Handbook of Landscape Archaeology. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, CA, USA, pp. 386-395.

Nunn, Patrick D., Hunter-Anderson, Rosalind, Carson, Mike T., Thomas, Frank, Ulm, Sean, and Rowland, Michael J. (2007) Times of plenty, times of less: last-millennium societal disruption in the Pacific Basin. Human Ecology, 35 (4). pp. 385-401.

Ulm, Sean, Barker, Bryce, Border, Andrew, Hall, Jay, Lilley, Ian, McNiven, Ian, Neal, Robert, and Rowland, Mike (1995) Pre-European coastal settlement and use of the sea: a view from Queensland. Australian Archaeology, 41. pp. 24-26.