TY - JOUR
T1 - Late Holocene edge-ground axe production and marine shell beads from Brooking Gorge 1 rockshelter, southern Kimberley
AU - Maloney, Tim Ryan
AU - O’Connor, Sue
AU - Dilkes-Hall, India Ella
AU - Langley, Michelle C.
PY - 2018/5/4
Y1 - 2018/5/4
N2 - Excavation of Brooking Gorge 1 rockshelter, located within Bunuba Country, southern Kimberley, Western Australia, demonstrates a late Holocene record of edge-grinding technology and scaphopod bead use. Excavated in 1993, we report here for the first time the summary data, radiocarbon dates and important finds. The stone tool technology from the site documents a rare focus on edge-ground axe manufacture. Scaphopod beads, significant in the symbolic material culture of the region, were also found.
AB - Excavation of Brooking Gorge 1 rockshelter, located within Bunuba Country, southern Kimberley, Western Australia, demonstrates a late Holocene record of edge-grinding technology and scaphopod bead use. Excavated in 1993, we report here for the first time the summary data, radiocarbon dates and important finds. The stone tool technology from the site documents a rare focus on edge-ground axe manufacture. Scaphopod beads, significant in the symbolic material culture of the region, were also found.
KW - Edge-ground axe
KW - macrobotanics
KW - marine shell beads
KW - scaphopod
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85055751322&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/03122417.2018.1522484
DO - 10.1080/03122417.2018.1522484
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85055751322
SN - 0312-2417
VL - 84
SP - 196
EP - 202
JO - Australian Archaeology
JF - Australian Archaeology
IS - 2
ER -
