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site. There is debate in archaeological literature about the use and significance of these points, with some claims that they were made for sale to tourists and as status items, and not as hunting tools.
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both discarded glass and stone. Best known for the points made of glass, these artifacts are an example of
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Elkin, A.P. (October 1948). "Pressure Flaking in the Northern Kimberley, Australia".
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They are often used as an indicator that an archaeological site is a post-contact
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pressure flaking
adaptive reuse
Aboriginal
Man
doi
10.2307/2791788
JSTOR
2791788
Balfour, Henry
"On the methods employed by the natives of NW Australia in the manufacture of glass spear heads"
Man
doi
10.2307/2839799
JSTOR
2839799
"Australia's iron Age: Aboriginal post-contact metal artefacts from Old Lamboo Station, Southeast Kimberley, Western Australia"
Australasian Historical Archaeology
"What's the Point?"
Archaeology
the original
"Kimberley points and colonial preference: new insights into the chronology of pressure flaked point forms from the southeast Kimberley, Western Australia"
Archaeology in Oceania
doi
10.1002/j.1834-4453.2004.tb00552.x
"Weapons and wunan: production, function and exchange of Kimberley points"
"Dentate and related stone biface points from Northern Australia"
doi
10.5962/p.264280
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