Stone artefacts and the Transition
- 1 September 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Antiquity
- Vol. 69 (265) , 784-797
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00082338
Abstract
Stone artefacts are made central in Australian prehistory by their dominance in the material we have from the field. Their contribution to this prehistory comes in the form of an unchanging tradition that spans the transition and changes only in the mid Holocene. This makes the Australian record almost unique in the world; but it is a uniqueness that may owe more to archaeological methods than cultural conservatism.Keywords
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