Australian Museum Journal Some wooden artefacts from the north coast of NSW: new archeological and ethnographic data
- Shortform:
- McBryde, 1978, Rec. Aust. Mus. 31(16): 660–671
- Author(s):
- McBryde, Isabel
- Year published:
- 1978
- Title:
- Some wooden artefacts from the north coast of NSW: new archeological and ethnographic data
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 31
- Issue:
- 16
- Start page:
- 660
- End page:
- 671
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.31.1978.207
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- published 31 October 1978, not September 1977
- Date published:
- 31 October 1978
- Cover date:
- 30 September 1977
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- ARCHAEOLOGY; ABORIGINES: AUSTRALIAN
- Digitized:
- 24 December 2008
- Available online:
- 02 March 2009
- Reference number:
- 207
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (282kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (2733kb PDF)
Abstract
This paper records and discusses the cultural context of three dated items from the North Coast of New South Wales. All were recovered by chance from waterlogged deposits during dredging or farming activities not found during systematic archaeological investigations. They include one boomerang from the Clarence River at Grafton, and a boomerang and one point from a multi-pronged fishing spear found in swamp deposits at Collombatti on the Lower Macleay north of Kempsey.
Aboriginal technologies as recorded in the immediate contact period depended to a considerable extent on organic raw materials. Many major items in the "extractive tool kit" of hunting weapons as well as basic tools and utensils were made of wood and bark fibres, and so are unlikely to survive in archaeological deposits, even of relatively recent age....