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Stone artefacts and the Transition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Simon Holdaway
Simon Holdaway*
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School of Archaeology, La Trobe University, Bundoora 3083, Australia
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Abstract

Stone artefacts are made central in Australian prehistory by their dominance in the material we have from the field. Their contribution to this prehistory comes in the form of an unchanging tradition that spans the transition and changes only in the mid Holocene. This makes the Australian record almost unique in the world; but it is a uniqueness that may owe more to archaeological methods than cultural conservatism.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 265 , 1995 , pp. 784 - 797
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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