Non-destructive provenancing of ground-edged mafic artefacts: a Holocene case study from the Sydney Basin, Australia

作者: Val Attenbrow , Tessa Corkill , Ross Pogson , Lin Sutherland , Peter Grave

DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2017.1324354

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摘要: ABSTRACTGround-edged artifacts were an important part of the Australian Aboriginal toolkit. They had practical day-to-day uses, but some symbolic and social values that led to their movement across great distances. provenance studies document long-distance exchange systems extending over hundreds kilometers. The size complexity networks contingent upon resources productivity a region's environment. Along fertile, well-watered lands east Great Dividing Range, objects may have been geographically more circumscribed than in drier areas west. One hundred twenty-one mafic, ground-edged from New South Wales (NSW) Central Coast 368 geological specimens potential sources non-destructively analyzed by portable X-Ray fluorescence spectrometry. Results indicate existence well-used basalt source within region at Peats Ridge-Popran Creek as well multiple local an...

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