The geoarchaeology of a Holocene site on the Woolshed Embankment, Lake George, New South Wales

Hughes, Philip; Shawcross, Wilfred; Sullivan, Marjorie; Spooner, Nigel A.

doi:10.1080/03122417.2014.11681995

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“…Attenbrow : 197‐8; Hughes et al . ; Lampert ). Flood observed that in comparison to other areas, especially towards the coast, backed blades “lingered on amongst the ‘conservative hill people’” (1980: 251) until a transition from the Middle to the Late Tradition she dates to about 770 years ago (930–510 cal BP, ANU‐1051) at YH2.…”

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“…In the Southern Tablelands, north-east of the high country, at the Lake George sites of Nardoo (Flood 1980), ELG1 (Hughes et al 1984) and WE-1 (Hughes et al 2014), the technological transition from backed artefact and from non-quartz dominance to bipolar-rich and quartz dominance has indeed been reported, although the archaeological deposits at two of the sites (ELG-1 and WE-1) are undated and only one date was obtained from the other (Nardoo). An unpublished excavation at Butmaroo 1, also at Lake George, does not appear to show the transition; rather, a quartz industry is labelled as underlying "Bondaian" sediments (J. Allen & R. Jones, unpublished data, 1990).…”

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A reassessment of technological change models for the Australian high country

Theden-Ringl

2016

Archaeology in Oceania

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Lithic assemblages from five Aboriginal rock shelters in the Namadgi Ranges – including the first with cultural material dating to the early to mid‐Holocene – provide new perspectives on our understanding of Holocene lithic technology for this region of the south‐east Australian high country. They reveal a steady continuation of quartz predominance and bipolar knapping technique through time. Formal tools are rare, as is other evidence of retouch, but quantitative analyses reveal that raw material variation diversifies and artefact size decreases from the mid‐Holocene towards the past millennium, with some associated evidence of a shift in reduction intensity. Re‐analysis of the lithic assemblage from the nearby Birrigai rock shelter and information from other dated Namadgi sites provide further context for interpretation. This study finds a lack of evidence for Flood's proposed regional model of late Holocene technological transition from chert‐dominated backed artefact to bipolar quartz industry. There is also no evidence for a cultural change associated with a backed artefact proliferation beginning around 4500 to 3500 years BP, as proposed by Hiscock and others for south‐east Australia more generally. In fact, the technological shifts observed in the Namadgi high country – morphometric decline, raw material diversity and the appearance of backed artefacts – culminate in the past millennium.

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Section: Readdressing Technological Transition Modelsmentioning

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A reassessment of technological change models for the Australian high country

Theden-Ringl

2016

Archaeology in Oceania

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“…2 as a dotted line with a shaded minimum/maximum depth range. Hughes et al (2014) directly dated shorelines S12 (11 m ALB) and S13 (10.5 m ALB) of the Distal Woolshed Embankment (Fig. 1b) using the Australian Slide OSL measurement procedure that was popular in the 1990s, but prone to erroneous results (Fullagar et al, 1996;Roberts et al, 1999).…”

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“…We have also included: 1) the unpublished OSL ages (±2σ) of Pietsch (2006) from the Fernhill Gully site (Fig. 1b; unfilled squares); 2) the minimum OSL age estimates (±2σ) of Hughes et al (2014) from the Upper (black squares) and Lower Distal Woolshed Embankments (grey squares) at their reported heights (Fig. 1b); and 3) a modified version of the OSL data (±2σ) presented in Fitzsimmons and Barrows (2010).…”

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“…This location was chosen based upon the wellpreserved shoreline morphologies readily observable in the LiDAR data indicating that, unlike the other parts of Lake George, Rocky Point was able to amplify shoreline Fig 1 . (a) Area surrounding Lake George, with rectangles relating to regions shown in panels B and C. The thick black contour line is equivalent to the 37 m above lake base (ALB) elevation of the proposed Lake George maximum. (b) Schematic of the northern composite shoreline features (embankments) with individual shorelines have delimited and labelled according to Coventry (1976), black and white boxes indicate study locations of Fitzsimmons and Barrows (2010) and Hughes et al (2014), respectively; and (c) Digital elevation model of the Rocky Point study location. Transect A-A' delimits the Luckdale Transect of abandoned shorelines presented in Fig.…”

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Revisiting the abandoned shorelines of Lake George, Australia: a refined optical dating framework

Jankowski

Cohen

Larsen

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J Quaternary Science

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Abandoned shorelines are an important archive used to constrain past fluctuations in the hydrological balance of lakes around the globe. Within Australia, the shorelines preserved at Lake George, NSW, form one of the few shoreline archives in the south‐east of the continent that record palaeoenvironmental conditions throughout the late Quaternary. Here, we examined and tested the lake‐level record for Lake George constructed in the 1970s by dating a well‐preserved shoreline sequence at Luckdale, on the lake's eastern shore, using single‐grain optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating. Ten stratigraphic units were identified, and these suggest a late Quaternary highstand for Lake George in MIS 3, with fluctuations superimposed upon an overall drying trend throughout MIS 2 and into the present. At Luckdale, the highest four shoreline‐associated units were deposited ~13 to 19 m above lake base and date to between 39 ± 2 and 29 ± 1 ka ago. Our study pushes back the timing of maximum lake depth at Lake George to at least MIS 3, rather than MIS 2. The overall drying trend is supported by similar reductions in both Riverine Plain fluvial activity and other associated lake‐level records from within the Murray basin.

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The Holocene evolution and geomorphology of a chain of ponds, southeast Australia: Establishing a physical template for river management

Mould

Fryirs

2017

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The geoarchaeology of a Holocene site on the Woolshed Embankment, Lake George, New South Wales

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A reassessment of technological change models for the Australian high country

A reassessment of technological change models for the Australian high country

Revisiting the abandoned shorelines of Lake George, Australia: a refined optical dating framework

The Holocene evolution and geomorphology of a chain of ponds, southeast Australia: Establishing a physical template for river management

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