 A monograph detailing his evidence and interpretations of the interaction between environmental change and Guyana prehistory was in press at the time of his death.He recognised the importance of publication and in 1978 founded "Archaeology and Anthropology", the journal of the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology in Georgetown.Among other journals Williams edited were "Odu" (the University of Ife Journal of African studies) and "Lagos Notes and Records", and he contributed numerous essays on art to several books and journals.