The Windang, or edge-ground uniface pebble axe in eastern Australia
Abstract
The Australian Museum possesses a series of one-hundred and eight axes of a type that may be considered transitional between the trimmed uniface pebble implements and edge-ground axes. The characteristics of the type are simple: it is made from a pebble, half of a split-pebble, or a slice from a pebble, trimmed partly or wholly on one surface only, with a blade ground on one or both facets. Attention has been drawn to occasional specimens but the series has not been described, nor has attention been drawn to its affinities. In the following analytical description, the series is divided into two groups, coroid and split-pebble.
