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Rare bone tool artefact revealed
Discovery on the Murray gives insight into ancient Australia.
Archaeologists Duncan Wright, Christopher Wilson, Roger Luebbers and Kelly Wiltshire (L-R) on the Murrawong excavation in 2008. Credit: Flinders University
Analysis of a crafted bone point unearthed on Ngarrindjeri country in South Australia is shedding new light on the behaviour and tool use of First Nations Australians, according to a new paper published in the journal
Australian Archaeology.
(a) The Murrawong bone point; (b) superior view; (c) inferior view; and (d) distal edge featuring use-related damage. Credit: Flinders University
The point was crafted out of kangaroo or wallaby bone, and later discarded or lost in the sediment for thousands of years until it was painstakingly excavated in 2008 by Dr Chris Wilson – a Ngarrindjeri archaeologist from Flinders University – and his team.