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Australian spear and spearthrower technology : an analysis of structural variation

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dc.contributor.authorCundy, B. Jen_AU
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-21T01:55:07Z
dc.date.available2017-02-21T01:55:07Z
dc.date.copyright1980
dc.date.issued1980
dc.date.updated2017-02-21T00:01:05Z
dc.description.abstractSpear and spearthrower technology was once familiar to a wide range of hunter-gatherer societies (see Garrod, 1955; Kellar, 1955; Krause, 1902; von Luschan, 1896), yet, to the prehistorian the performance characteristics and the mechanical principles which governed the operation of this technology remain largely unknown. The aim of this thesis is therefore to provide an increased understanding of one of man's simplest and possibly oldest technologies, by defining these principles and relating them to the structural variation extant in Australian spears and spearthrowers.en_AU
dc.format.extent1v
dc.identifier.otherb1207000
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/112490
dc.language.isoenen_AU
dc.subject.lcshAboriginal Australians Implements
dc.subject.lcshSpears
dc.subject.lcshThrowing-sticks Australia
dc.titleAustralian spear and spearthrower technology : an analysis of structural variationen_AU
dc.typeThesis (Masters)en_AU
dcterms.valid1980en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationDepartment of Prehistory and Anthropology, School of General Studiesen_AU
local.contributor.supervisorRosenfeld, Andree
local.contributor.supervisorMcBryd e, Isabel
local.contributor.supervisorShawcross, Wilfred
local.description.notesThis thesis has been made available through exception 200AB to the Copyright Act.en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.25911/5d74e81b5d6a1
local.identifier.proquestYes
local.mintdoimint
local.type.degreeMaster by research (Masters)en_AU

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