Maloney, TimO'Connor, SusanDilkes-Hall, India EllaLangley, Michelle2021-07-30Tim Ryan Maloney, Sue O’Connor, India Ella Dilkes-Hall & Michelle C. Langley (2018) Late Holocene edge-ground axe production and marine shell beads from Brooking Gorge 1 rockshelter, southern Kimberley, Australian Archaeology, 84:2, 196-202, DOI: 10.1080/03122417.2018.15224840312-2417http://hdl.handle.net/1885/241611Excavation of Brooking Gorge 1 rockshelter, located within Bunuba Country, southern Kimberley, Western Australia, demonstrates a late Holocene record of edge-grinding technology and scaphopod bead use. Excavated in 1993, we report here for the first time the summary data, radiocarbon dates and important finds. The stone tool technology from the site documents a rare focus on edge-ground axe manufacture. Scaphopod beads, significant in the symbolic material culture of the region, were also found.The paper was written with support from Australian Research Council grant LP100200415 ‘Lifeways of the first Australians’ with contributions from the Kimberley Foundation of Australia.© 2018 Australian Archaeological AssociationEdge-ground axemarine shell beadsscaphopodmacrobotanics2018-10-3010.1080/03122417.2018.1522484