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Pleistocene seed-grinding implements from the Australian arid zone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Richard Fullagar  and
Judith Field
Richard Fullagar
Affiliation:
Division of Anthropology, Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
Judith Field
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. E-mail: [email protected]
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Grinding-stones as a technology are seen as a key element in the artefactual transformations of the latest Pleistocene – both for themselves and the foods which were ground on them. In Australia, as in other regions, their age and status is also material to what (if any) kind of a broad-spectrum revolution in foraging accompanied them.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 272 , June 1997 , pp. 300 - 307
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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