Abstract

Through the courtesy of Messrs. Roy Mackenzie and Rex Burns, residents of Mangrove Mountain, some twenty miles west of Gosford, New South Wales, the writer was enabled to dig up, or acquire by gift, several rectangular hammers or pounders, invariably of basalt, of a type hitherto undescribed. The writer was already acquainted with this type of implement, there being several examples already in the Museum cabinets, but of which little was known.

The Trustees possess two from Bulga, Singleton district, New South Wales (registered numbers, E.24709 and E.26035), one from a rock shelter on Wyong Creek, New South Wales (E.11247), and another, not otherwise included, from Mangrove Mountain (E.33473). To these may be added some seven specimens from the collection of the late R. H. Mathews (E.25660–66)....

 
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Short Form
Thorpe, 1932, Rec. Aust. Mus. 18(6): 302–311
Author
W. W. Thorpe
Year
1932
Title
Ethnological notes. No. 4
Serial Title
Records of the Australian Museum
Volume
18
Issue
6
Start Page
302
End Page
311
DOI
10.3853/j.0067-1975.18.1932.734
Language
en
Plates
plates xxvii–xxxii
Date Published
20 April 1932
Cover Date
20 April 1932
ISSN (print)
0067-1975
CODEN
RAUMAJ
Publisher
The Australian Museum
Place Published
Sydney, Australia
Digitized
05 February 2009
Available Online
06 March 2009
Reference Number
734
EndNote
734.enw
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