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Characterizing Late Pleistocene and Holocene Stone Artefact Assemblages from Puritjarra Rock Shelter: A Long Sequence from the Australian Desert

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dc.contributor.authorSmith, Mike
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-07T22:52:23Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.date.updated2015-12-07T12:29:04Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents the first detailed study of a large assemblage of late Pleistocene artefacts from the central desert. Analysis of the lithics shows show that Puritjarra rock shelter was used more intensively over time, with significant shifts in the character of occupation at 18,000, 7,500 and 800 B.P., reflecting significant re-organization of activities across the landscape. The same generalized flake and core technology appears to have been used for over 30 millennia with only limited change in artefact typology over this period.
dc.identifier.issn0067-1975
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/27417
dc.publisherAustralian Museum Trust
dc.sourceRecords of the Australian Museum
dc.titleCharacterizing Late Pleistocene and Holocene Stone Artefact Assemblages from Puritjarra Rock Shelter: A Long Sequence from the Australian Desert
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage410
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage371
local.contributor.affiliationSmith, Mike, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidSmith, Mike, v005434
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor210101 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4029967xPUB51
local.identifier.citationvolume58
local.identifier.doi10.3853/j.0067-1975.58.2006.1470
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-33846821949
local.type.statusPublished Version

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