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Bevel-edged tools from coastal southeast Queensland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ian J. McNiven
Ian J. McNiven*
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Department of Archaeology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia
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A distinctive type of stone tool, from midden sites on the eastern Queensland coast of Australia, is identified from ethnographic accounts of the preparation of fern roots as food.

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Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 252 , September 1992, pp. 701 - 709
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1992

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