Australian Museum Journal Some unusal cylindro-conical stones from New South Wales and Java
- Shortform:
- McCarthy, 1944, Rec. Aust. Mus. 21(5): 257–260
- Author(s):
- McCarthy, Frederick D.
- Year published:
- 1944
- Title:
- Some unusal cylindro-conical stones from New South Wales and Java
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 5
- Start page:
- 257
- End page:
- 260
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.21.1944.539
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plate xv
- Date published:
- 22 June 1944
- Cover date:
- 22 June 1944
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- ANTHROPOLOGY; ABORIGINES: AUSTRALIAN; INDONESIA
- Digitized:
- 03 September 2009
- Reference number:
- 539
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (135kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (987kb PDF)
Abstract
The specimens described in this paper are in the collection of the Australian Museum. 1. E.50489. Found on a claypan twelve miles from Bancannia Lake, and eighty-five miles north of Broken Hill, New South Wales (Plate xv, figs. 5a-b).—A straight conical stone, flattened oval in section. It is completely polished, except for a band 1 cm. wide round the base and the concave butt which form a hammer-dressed area. No flakes have been struck off the base round the butt. The distal end is a sharp-edged blade 2.75 cm. long formed by two ground facets 0.5 cm. wide; a large spall 6 cm. long is missing from one side of this end. The material is a gneissic rock. It bears simple but unusual incised markings.