Hammer-Stone
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1920
name: label: Collector
content: H. Barrett
label: Donor Name
content: H. Barrett
notes: label: Notes
content: CHIPPED WITH MANY USE SCARS. SIZE: 5 1/2/X4 3/8". (SRJONES 11/96) ACCESSIONED JUNE 17, 1920. COLLECTOR WROTE IN THE ACC. FILE: THIS ACCESSION OF IMPLEMENTS WERE FOUND IN AN AREA HE REFERS TO AS CAMPS. CAMPS ARE INVARIABLY SITUATED NEAR SMALL CREEKS ON GENTLY SLOOPING GROUND, SEVERAL OF WHICH HAVE BEEN OCCUPIED FOR A VERY LONG PERIOD. IT WAS THE CUSTOM OF THE NATIVES WHO DWELLED IN COMMUNITIES NUMBERING FROM 100 TO 350 TO GO FROM ONE CAMP TO ANOTHER BY EASY STAGES.?. LIVING A FEW DAYS AT EACH PLACE AND MOVING TO THE NEXT WHEN THE HUNTING WAS EXHAUSTED. THEIR WEAPONS, THE SPEAR AND THE CLUB WERE BOTH OF WOOD, THE STONE IMPLEMENTS BEING ALL FOR DOMESTIC PURPOSES. THESE IMPLEMENTS ARE MOSTLY FOUND NEAR THE CREEK, AND SOME ARE AS FRESH LOOKING AS IF CHIPPED YESTERDAY, THEY GET SCARCER AND MORE WEATHERED IN APPEARENCE THE FURTHER AWAY THEY ARE FOUND. AT ONE OR TWO LOCALITIES I HAVE FOUND THEM ON THE RISE FROM 1/4 TO 1/2 MILE AWAY FROM THE CREEK. BUT THEY ARE VERY MUCH WEATHERED, SOME HARDY RECOGNIZABLE AS HUMAN WORKMANSHIP. I HAVE INCLUDED SOME OF THESE IMPLEMENTS AS I THINK THAT THEY ARE OF MUCH GREATER AGE THAN THE OTHERS (NOS. 54&61). I AM ENCLOSING A LIST OF IMPLEMENTS AND THE LOCALITIES WHERE FOUND.
label: Notes
content: THE IMPLEMENT HAS BIFACIAL DEPRESSIONS.
label: Notes
content: Per list in accession file, object is from Barnard Creek, Rocherlea, North Tasmania.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Jun 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Rocherlea, Barnard Creek, Tasmania, Australia
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 065063
label: USNM Number
content: A314478-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hammer Stone