An archaeological study of Holocene bifacial points from Australia.

What is it about?

Bifacial stone points were gradually modified throughout their life history and transported across the landscape; the extant record of these transformations provides a window into the mobility patterns and lifeways of ancient Indigenous people. We recontruct these reduction sequences from an excavated mid Holocene cave site in Bunuba country Western Australia.

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Why is it important?

This is the first morphometric and reduction sequence based study of stone points from Western Australia. We find many parrallels with studies from neighbouring regions of Northern Australia.

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