A spearthrower butt from Widgingarri, Western Kimberley, Western Australia
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Langley, Michelle
Whitau, Rose
Dilkes-Hall, India Ella
Smith, Moya
O'Connor, Sue
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Despite the dominance of wood-based technologies in Australian Aboriginal techno-complexes, recovery of archaeological examples is exceedingly rare in the north of the continent where environmental conditions are most harsh for such archaeologically fragile items. Here we report the discovery of a 210 year old spearthrower butt made from bat-wing coral tree (Erythrina vespertilio) from the Worrorra site of Widgingarri 9 (western Kimberley).
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Michelle C. Langley, Rose Whitau, India Ella Dilkes-Hall, Moya Smith & Sue O’Connor (2019) A spearthrower butt from Widgingarri, Western Kimberley, Western Australia, Australian Archaeology, 85:1, 102-107, DOI: 10.1080/03122417.2019.1596372
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