Prehistoric stone mortars

Swadling, Pamela

Cultural advice

The Australian National University acknowledges, celebrates and pays our respects to the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people of the Canberra region and to all First Nations Australians on whose traditional lands we meet and work, and whose cultures are among the oldest continuing cultures in human history.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are advised that ANU Library collections may include images, names, voices, and other representations of deceased persons.

Material in the collection may contain terms, language or views that reflect the period in which the item was created and may be considered inappropriate today.

Prehistoric stone mortars

Date

2013

Authors

Swadling, Pamela

Publisher

British Museum Press

Abstract

Distributional studies of stone mortars and pestles, as well as obsidian stemmed artefacts, have just begun, and these investigations are changing our perspective on the nature of social networks that existed in New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago thousands of years ago.