On-line papers about Australian Implements

                The following hyperlinks allow you to read a small selection of papers on prehistoric Australian artefacts. The papers are currently restricted in range by those I have permission to reproduce, but hopefully the range will increase soon.

 Byrne,D. 1980. Dynamics of Dispersion: The place of silcrete in archaeological assemblages from the Lower Murchison, Western Australia. Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania 15, 110-19.

Cundy,B.J. 1985. The secondary use and reduction of cylindro-conical stone artifacts from the Northern Territory. The Beagle, Occasional Papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 2(1): 115-127.

Hiscock,P. 1994 The end of points. Pp.72-83 in M.Sullivan, S.Brockwell, and A.Webb (eds) Archaeology in the North. North Australian Research Unit, Australian National University.

Hiscock,P., and P.J.Hughes 1980 Backed blades in Northern Australia: evidence from Northwest Queensland. Australian Archaeology 10:86-95.

Hiscock, P. and V. Attenbrow 1996 Backed into a corner. Australian Archaeology 42:64-65.

McNiven, I. 1993 Tula adzes and bifacial points on the East Coast of Australia

McNiven, I. 1994 Technological organisation and settlement in southwest Tasmania