Professor Robert G. Bednarik principal interests are in the origins of the human ability to create constructs of reality, and in a variety of fields providing supplementary information in that quest. This includes the beginnings of art and language, and technological developments providing a measure of early human capacities, such as seafaring and the use of beads.

Professor Robert G. Bednarik have produced over 700 refereed scientific publications, mostly in cognitive epistemology and palaeoart studies, also general and replicative archaeology, human evolution, soil science, speleology, deontology, semiotics, neuroscience, psychology, ethnography, geomorphology and tribology. In all, more than 1400 publications, including numerous books and edited volumes. Professor Robert G. Bednarik have appeared in 18 film documentaries, presented some 275 papers at professional meetings and invited lectures, and have given about 565 interviews to the printed and electronic media, in many parts of the world.