Late Holocene edge-ground axe production and marine shell beads from Brooking Gorge 1 rockshelter, southern Kimberley

Tim Ryan MaloneyPERAHU, Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia; ;Department of Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; ;ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; Correspondence[email protected]

Sue O’ConnorDepartment of Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; ;ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia;

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9381-078X

India Ella Dilkes-HallDepartment of Archaeology, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia;

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6487-0043

Michelle C. LangleyAustralian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

Abstract

Excavation of Brooking Gorge 1 rockshelter, located within Bunuba Country, southern Kimberley, Western Australia, demonstrates a late Holocene record of edge-grinding technology and scaphopod bead use. Excavated in 1993, we report here for the first time the summary data, radiocarbon dates and important finds. The stone tool technology from the site documents a rare focus on edge-ground axe manufacture. Scaphopod beads, significant in the symbolic material culture of the region, were also found.

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We express our thanks and respect to the Bunuba community for supporting this research. The paper was written with support from Australian Research Council grant LP100200415 ‘Lifeways of the first Australians’ with contributions from the Kimberley Foundation of Australia.

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