A record in stone
Subtitle: the study of Australia's flaked stone artefacts
By: Simon Holdaway and Nicola Stern.
Contributors: Stern, Nicola, Dr.
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press; Museum Victoria
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Canberra; Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Stone implements -- Australia; Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities; Aboriginal Australians -- Implements; Australia -- Antiquities
Description: "A Record in Stone is a comprehensive investigation into the different ways in which archaeologists use flaked stone artefacts as a basis for reconstructing the distant human past. Authors Simon Holdaway and Nicola Stern not only describe the range of flaked stone artefact forms recovered from Australian archaeological sites, but also place Australian studies alongside the major international theories surrounding the description of stone artefacts."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-362) and index.
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Table of contents: title: Ch. 1.; title: Studying stone artefacts : materials, production process and basic definitions -- -- Ch. 2.; title: Frameworks for studying stone artefacts -- -- Ch. 3.; title: Attributes used in describing flakes -- -- Ch. 4.; title: Attributes used in describing tools -- -- Ch. 5.; title: Attributes used in describing cores -- -- Ch. 6.; title: Artefact types -- -- Ch. 7.; title: From artefacts to an understanding of the human past.