Aboriginal craft and subsistence activities at Native Well I and Native Well II, Central Western Highlands, Queensland: Results of a residue and use-wear analysis of backed artefacts

摘要: This research provides insight into activities at two adjoining Aboriginal rockshelters in the Central Highlands western Queensland, Native Well I and II. The study involved a residue use-wear analysis of backed artefact component stone assemblage. Prior to this, interpretation sites essentially relied on evidence changes technology over time, sequential spatial patterning artefacts ethnographic analogy. revealed range occurring during mid-to-late Holocene. Backed were used as knives, scrapers and/or incisors for wood-working bone-working, well knives plant processing, including cooked starchy plants. Artefacts with ochre feather residues may have been ceremonial purposes, while distribution resin indicates more than half had hafted.