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A record in stone : the study of Australia's flaked stone artefacts / Simon Holdaway and Nicola Stern.
Penn Museum Library DU124.A57 H65 2004 1 v. + CD-ROM
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holdaway, Simon (Simon John)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stone implements--Australia.
- Stone implements.
- Aboriginal Australians--Antiquities.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Aboriginal Australians--Implements.
- Australia--Antiquities.
- Australia.
- Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 CD ROM (color ; 4 3/4 in.)
- Place of Publication:
- Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press ; Melbourne, Vic. : Museum Victoria, 2004.
- System Details:
- Systems requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: PC WIN 98 or MAC OS 9.2 or above, Netscape 4.7, Explorer 5.0 and above.
- Summary:
- Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "more than 450 colour images of artefacts."--P. [4] of cover.
- Contents:
- Ch. 1. Studying stone artefacts : materials, production process and basic definitions
- Ch. 2. Frameworks for studying stone artefacts
- Ch. 3. Attributes used in describing flakes
- Ch. 4. Attributes used in describing tools
- Ch. 5. Attributes used in describing cores
- Ch. 6. Artefact types
- Ch. 7. From artefacts to an understanding of the human past.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-362) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0855754605
- 9780855754600
- OCLC:
- 56544260
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