Australian Museum Journal The Lapstone Creek excavation: two culture periods revealed in eastern New South Wales
- Shortform:
- McCarthy, 1948, Rec. Aust. Mus. 22(1): 1–34
- Author(s):
- McCarthy, Frederick D.
- Year published:
- 1948
- Title:
- The Lapstone Creek excavation: two culture periods revealed in eastern New South Wales
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 22
- Issue:
- 1
- Start page:
- 1
- End page:
- 34
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.22.1948.587
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plates i–iv
- Date published:
- 30 June 1948
- Cover date:
- 30 June 1948
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- ANTHROPOLOGY; ABORIGINES: AUSTRALIAN; ARCHAEOLOGY
- Digitized:
- 20 May 2009
- Reference number:
- 587
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (133kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (6638kb PDF)
Abstract
This paper is an account of the results of the excavation of a rock-shelter situated (Figure 1) on the southern side of a gully a few hundred yards north of the bridge over which the Great Western Road crosses the Western Railway Line. This gully is on the eastern slope of the Blue Mountains, and the rock-shelter, which faces northward, is at its lower end. Lapstone Creek flows down the gully to the river half a mile to the east. From various vantage points above the rock-shelter the aborigines had a wide view of the lowlands towards the river. Before the railway was constructed there was easy access from this gully to the Nepean River and Emu Plains. Nowadays a high railway embankment runs across the gully and shuts off completely the old way of access.