Investigating standardisation in the form of backed artefacts at two sites in the Hunter River valley, NSW, Australia

Low, Marika

doi:10.1080/03122417.2015.11682045

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“…in terms of subsistence risk minimisation) have been the subject of considerable analytical and interpretive attention in Australia (e.g. Attenbrow, 2006;Attenbrow et al, 2008;Hiscock, 1994Hiscock, , 2002Hiscock, , 2006Hiscock, , 2021Low, 2015;McDonald et al, 2007;Robertson, 2011;Robertson et al, 2009;Robertson & Attenbrow 2008).…”

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“…As in other parts of the Sydney Basin (e.g. Attenbrow et al, 2008;Hiscock & Attenbrow, 2005;Hiscock, 1993;Low, 2015;McLaren et al, 2018), coefficient of variation (CV) values for the length, width and thickness of complete and near-complete Bondi points in the study assemblage provide broad support for the characterisation of these implements as standardised tool components (after Hiscock, 1994Hiscock, , 2002. Following Low (2015), CV values for the length (24.3%) and width (16.8%) of complete and near-complete specimens support the contention that both variables were important design features and standardised accordingly.…”

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Late Holocene technological provisioning at the Kings Table rockshelter, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia

McLaren,

Oakes

2023

Archaeology in Oceania

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Technological analysis of the late Holocene component of the stone artefact assemblage recovered from the Kings Table rockshelter in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, provides the basis for an assessment of the site's role in broader late Holocene settlement‐subsistence systems. Drawing on Kuhn's widely employed “provisioning model”, as well as Kelleher's general pre‐contact occupation model for the Blue Mountains National Park (BMNP), we argue that the Kings Table rockshelter functioned as a short‐term field camp for logistically‐organised hunter‐gatherers whose principal residential bases were located in “off‐mountains” contexts. It is argued that the late Holocene component of the Kings Table assemblage has a technological “signature” entirely consistent with individual provisioning. Aboriginal groups occupying this site over the course of the late Holocene employed a mobile toolkit whose lithic component was dominated by artefacts manufactured out of high‐quality, transported silicified tuff and incorporated both backed artefact‐bearing composite tools and hafted edge‐ground hatchets (axes) as key elements.

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Late Holocene technological provisioning at the Kings Table rockshelter, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia

McLaren,

Oakes

2023

Archaeology in Oceania

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Mid-to-Late Holocene Aboriginal Flaked Stone Artefact Technology on the Cumberland Plain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: A View from the South Creek Catchment

McLaren¹,

Oakes²,

Atkinson³

et al. 2018

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The role of experimental knapping in empirically testing key themes in the evolution of lithic technology: reduction intensity, efficiency and behavioural complexity

Muller¹

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Experimental knapping has complimented and stimulated lithic analyses for over a century.Throughout this period, the discipline has witnessed an increase in the scientific rigour and theoretical grounding with which these studies are conducted. This thesis charts these key trends and in doing so establishes a best-practice model of experimental knapping, the veracity of which is in turn tested using four new lithic experiments. These case-studies employ experimental knapping to advance our understanding of flake platform measurement, reduction intensity, technological efficiency, and behavioural complexity.The first case-study, Chapter 3, offers a more accurate and precise calliper-based method of flake platform measurement that relies on simple geometric approximations of platform shape rather than the inflexible and unreliable existing method of multiplying platform width by thickness. In Chapter 4, a new reduction intensity metric for backed blades, a hitherto overlooked tool-type, is developed and tested on the backed blades from an early Neolithic site in Turkey. This new metric allows a reconstruction of the raw material consumption patterns at the site, finding that the backed blades These four case-studies, coupled with a consideration of existing knapping experiments, allow an understanding of how experimental knapping is embedded in the broader archaeological research process, and ultimately tests the efficacy of a best-practice model of experimental knapping. This model identifies the initial scope, methodological control, and breadth of interpretations as the key variables dictating the validity of an experiment. While knapping experiments may differ markedly in their scope and control, they do not necessarily vary in their validity. Instead, it is the interplay of these variables that dictates the validity of experimentation. Within this best-practice model, lithic experiments are most robust when the scale of the initial scope, methodological control and ensuing interpretations are congruent, and when they involve explicit and falsifiable hypothesis testing.iii

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Investigating standardisation in the form of backed artefacts at two sites in the Hunter River valley, NSW, Australia

Cited by 3 publications

References 27 publications

Late Holocene technological provisioning at the Kings Table rockshelter, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia

Late Holocene technological provisioning at the Kings Table rockshelter, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia

Mid-to-Late Holocene Aboriginal Flaked Stone Artefact Technology on the Cumberland Plain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: A View from the South Creek Catchment

The role of experimental knapping in empirically testing key themes in the evolution of lithic technology: reduction intensity, efficiency and behavioural complexity

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