Australian Museum Journal The stone implements of Australia
- Shortform:
- McCarthy et al., 1946, Aust. Mus. Mem. 9: 1–94
- Author(s):
- McCarthy, Frederick D.; Bramwell, Elsie; Noone, H. V. V.
- Year published:
- 1946
- Title:
- The stone implements of Australia
- Serial title:
- Australian Museum Memoir
- Volume:
- 9
- Start page:
- 1
- End page:
- 94
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1967.9.1946.515
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 15 November 1946
- Cover date:
- 15 November 1946
- ISSN:
- 0067-1967
- CODEN:
- AUNMA5
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- ANTHROPOLOGY; ABORIGINES: AUSTRALIAN; ARCHAEOLOGY
- Digitized:
- 02 September 2009
- Available online:
- 02 September 2009
- Reference number:
- 515
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (295kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (24994kb PDF)
Abstract
The study of Australian stone implements has advanced steadily during the past twenty years. At present, however, the position has been reached in which there exist a certain amount of confusion regarding typology and nomenclature and a lack of knowledge among those interested, both here and abroad, of the full range of Australian implement types and their variations. This work is a systematic study intended to clarify these aspects of the subject as far as possible; in addition, the literature on each group of implements is given, and lines are indicated along which the study of Australian stone implements can be developed. The work is not a monograph embodying all known data about Australian stone implements; it is a summary catalogue in which the sources are given where such information is to be found.