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Stone Disc Beads from Watinglo Shelter, Northern Papua New Guinea

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2010

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O'Connor, Susan
Dickinson, William

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New Zealand Archaeological Association

Abstract

In 2005 the excavation of a new rockshelter in Papua New Guinea, Watinglo, unearthed the unusual find of four stone disc-shaped beads. Beads such as this have not hitherto been reported from Papua New Guinea. The context, age, technology of manufacture and petrography of the beads are described.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/31039

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ANU Research Publications

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Journal of Pacific Archaeology

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Open Access

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10.70460/jpa.v1i2.29

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