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Complex stone tools were used by the Gunditjmara of western Victoria [27] until relatively recently. [28] Many examples are now held in museums. [27] [26] Flaked stone tools were made by extracting a sharp fragment of stone from a larger piece, called a core, by hitting it with a "hammerstone". Both the flakes and the hammerstones could be used ...
Stone artefacts scattered on the ground, Paroo River, Central Queensland. Cutting tools made of stone and grinding or pounding stones were also used as everyday items by Aboriginal peoples. [28] [29] Cutting tools were made by hammering a core stone into flakes. [29] [30] Grinding stones can include millstones and mullers. [31]
Tachylite is an unusual and relatively rare stone used in making flaked stone tools, and which is found in Aboriginal archaeological sites in Victoria, Australia. [1]It was sourced from Spring Hill near Lauriston, Victoria, [2] [3] and there is another historical reference to a source at Green Hill near Trentham, Victoria, but the exact location has not been confirmed.
These stone flakes represent the tools Aboriginal people used, such as knives, spear points, scrapers and awls, and the waste material left behind when they were made. Commonly referred to as stone artefact scatters such sites can be found on the surface or exposed by ploughing or erosion, or through careful archaeological excavation.
Kimberley points are a type of Aboriginal stone tool made by pressure flaking [1] both discarded glass and stone. [2] Best known for the points made of glass, these artifacts are an example of adaptive reuse of Western technology by a non-western culture. They are often used as an indicator that an archaeological site is a post-contact ...
Flake and core methods for creating stone tools stayed relatively the same. [4] Tula stone tools as well as thumbnail scrapers that were most likely hafted have also been found at the site. [7] Researchers have determined that the site was occupied throughout the late Pleistocene and into the last millennium.
Hornfels is an unusual and relatively rare stone used in making flaked stone tools, and which is found in Aboriginal archaeological sites in Victoria, Australia. [1] A sample of places where it has been found can be seen in the geographic section below.
James Kohen, in his book Aboriginal Environmental Impacts, [3] describes the Aboriginal stone tool assemblage of Karta as "heavy core tools and pebble choppers". [4] Such Kartan tools are also, writes Kohen, found on the South Australian coast, the Flinders Ranges, and at Lime Springs in New South Wales.