| Autor: |
Philip Hughes, Nigel A. Spooner, Marjorie Sullivan, Amy Mosig Way |
| Rok vydání: |
2013 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Archaeology in Oceania. 49:43-55 |
| ISSN: |
0003-8121 |
| DOI: |
10.1002/arco.5022 |
| Popis: |
A site in the Olympic Dam area, recorded during archaeological surveying as a silcrete quarry, was investigated. Hand-excavated squares and subsequent machine-excavated trenches revealed an ancient “mine” rather than a simple surface quarry. Blocks of high-quality silcrete were levered from below the ground surface and many were knapped in the immediate area. Rubble in the pit backfills included large numbers of flakes. Single-grain optical dates from sediments in the backfilled pits demonstrate that the silcrete “mining” occurred during a short period in the late Holocene. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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