Australian Museum Journal Waisted blades in Australia?
- Shortform:
- Lampert, 1983, Rec. Aust. Mus. 35(4): 145–151
- Author(s):
- Lampert, Ronald J.
- Year published:
- 1983
- Title:
- Waisted blades in Australia?
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 35
- Issue:
- 4
- Start page:
- 145
- End page:
- 151
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.35.1983.314
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 11 November 1983
- Cover date:
- 11 November 1983
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- ANTHROPOLOGY; ABORIGINES: AUSTRALIAN; ARCHAEOLOGY
- Digitized:
- 30 January 2009
- Available online:
- 09 March 2009
- Reference number:
- 314
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (174kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (1075kb PDF)
Abstract
Waisted tools from two localities in Australia are compared with the better known, flaked waisted blades from New Guinea. In size, shape and type of edge modification, the two Australian samples differ both from each other and from New Guinea specimens. While waisting itself is seen as appearing in Australia through independent invention rather than as a shared concept, other aspects of the technology, which were universal, are seen as preconditions for waisting. These increased the probability of waisting's being invented in the region more than once.