DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.11.006
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84995780821
论文题名: A >46,000-year-old kangaroo bone implement from Carpenter's Gap 1 (Kimberley, northwest Australia)
作者: Langley M.C. ; O'Connor S. ; Aplin K.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2016
卷: 154 起始页码: 199
结束页码: 213
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Intangible culture
; Northern Australia
; Ornamentation
; Osseous technology
; Sahul
; Symbolism
Scopus关键词: Geology
; Natural sciences
; Australia
; Kimberley regions
; nocv1
; Northern Australia
; Ornamentation
; Sahul
; Symbolism
; Time depth
; Western Australia
; Bone
; artifact
; bone
; culture
; ethnography
; marsupial
; morphology
; ornamentation
; symbolism
; Australia
; Kimberley [Northern Cape]
; Northern Cape
; South Africa
英文摘要: Here we describe the oldest shaped and utilised bone implement recovered from an Australian context. Dated to beyond 46,000 years cal. BP and recovered from Carpenter's Gap 1 rockshelter, in the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia, this artefact demonstrates not only that Australian osseous technology has a time depth almost 25,000 years older than previously believed, but that bone technology was present in the opposite corner of the country from which it was proposed to have been innovated around 20,000 years ago. Comparison of this artefact with ethnographic implements found that the CG1 point was most consistent with an awl or a ‘nose-bone’. If the implement was an awl it provides evidence for intangible behaviours such as leather working or basketry being enacted more than 46,000 years cal. BP ago, while the alternative — a nose-bone — would constitute the earliest piece of personal ornamentation in Sahul. In either case, this single artefact provides rare insights into the culture and technology of Australia's earliest peoples. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/59370
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作者单位: Archaeology & Natural History, School of Culture History & Language, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University, Australia
Recommended Citation:
Langley M.C.,O'Connor S.,Aplin K.. A >46,000-year-old kangaroo bone implement from Carpenter's Gap 1 (Kimberley, northwest Australia)[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2016-01-01,154