A Petrological Analysis of Ground-edge Artefacts from Northern New South Wales

Résumé du livre

Covers 517 stone axes which are grouped into 4 types; pebble axes; core, flake & blade axes; broken axes or flakes; hafted axes; short discussion of use & importance of axes; discusses petrology of materials used, origins of stone axes by type of stone, stone quarry sites in north eastern N.S.W., dating of axes with an archaeological context, distribution of petrological groups, evidence for dispersal and trade, describes hafting process used near Wilcannia; Appendix Catalogue of artefacts studied in the project, giving number, typological category, dimensions, provenance, archaeological context, collector, where housed, petrological group, etc.