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A spearthrower butt from Widgingarri, Western Kimberley, Western Australia

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dc.contributor.authorLangley, Michelle
dc.contributor.authorWhitau, Rose
dc.contributor.authorDilkes-Hall, India Ella
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Moya
dc.contributor.authorO'Connor, Sue
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-21T04:52:14Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-10
dc.description.abstractDespite 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).en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by an ARC Linkage Grant LP100200415, with contributions from the Kimberley Foundation Australia, and the Dept. of Sustainability, Water, Populations, and Communities.en_AU
dc.identifier.citationMichelle 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: 10.1080/03122417.2019.1596372en_AU
dc.identifier.issn0312-2417en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/237878
dc.publisherRoutledge Taylor & Francis Groupen_AU
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP100200415en_AU
dc.rights© 2019 Australian Archaeological Associationen_AU
dc.sourceAustralian Archaeologyen_AU
dc.subjectWooden technologyen_AU
dc.subjectprojectile technologyen_AU
dc.subjectX-ray μCTen_AU
dc.subjecttraceologyen_AU
dc.titleA spearthrower butt from Widgingarri, Western Kimberley, Western Australiaen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
dcterms.dateAccepted2019-03-14
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage107en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage102en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationLangley, Michelle, Griffith Universityen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationWhitau, Rose, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationDilkes-Hall, India Ella, University of Western Australiaen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationSmith, Moya, Museum of Western Australiaen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationO'Connor, Susan, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidWhitau, Rose, u4998112en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidO'Connor, Susan, u9413939en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesAdded manually as didn't import from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor210101 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeologyen_AU
local.identifier.absseo970121 - Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeologyen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu3102795xPUB4113en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume85en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1080/03122417.2019.1596372en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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