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Assessing the spread and uptake of tula adze technology in the late Holocene across the Southern Kimberley of Western Australia
Australian Archaeology ( IF 1.708 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-21 , DOI: 10.1080/03122417.2020.1816149
Tim Ryan Maloney 1 , India Ella Dilkes-Hall 2
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Abstract

One of Indigenous Australia’s unique stone tools, the tula adze is traditionally viewed as a hafted woodworking tool of the arid zone. Unlike most stone tools in Australia and around the world, the spread and adoption of the tula adze has been described as rapid and instantaneous. The conditions which underlie this technological change are critically assessed in this study, using risk minimisation and diffusion models. The focus of the paper is a study area with unclear tula distribution—the southern Kimberley of Western Australia. The spatial distribution of these tools is reviewed and new discoveries outlined. Reduction sequences and morphological trends observed elsewhere are examined, and compared to the Kimberley record. Some of the archaeological sites analysed also preserve evidence of woodworking activities, such as wood shavings and wooden tools. We use these records, augmented by the association of hardwood species from macrobotanical records, to associate tulas with hardwood species availability in the late Holocene archaeological record of the Kimberley. We conclude that woodworking craft production proliferated in the late Holocene, as a likely result of both diffusion of information and foraging risk minimisation.



中文翻译:

评估图拉迷踪技术在全新世晚期在西澳大利亚州南部金伯利的传播和采用

摘要

图拉火山口是澳大利亚土著独特的石材工具之一,传统上被视为干旱地区的带柄木工工具。与澳大利亚和世界各地的大多数石材工具不同,图拉迷宫的传播和采用被描述为迅速而即时的。在这项研究中,使用风险最小化和扩散模型对评估技术变革的基础条件进行了严格评估。本文的重点是图拉分布不明确的研究区域-西澳大利亚州南部的金伯利。这些工具的空间分布进行了审查,并概述了新发现。检查还原序列和其他地方观察到的形态趋势,并将其与金伯利记录进行比较。所分析的一些考古遗址也保存了木工活动的证据,例如刨花和木制工具。我们使用这些记录,再结合宏观植物学记录中的硬木树种,将图拉斯与金伯利的全新世晚期考古记录中的硬木树种可用性相关联。我们得出的结论是,由于信息的传播和觅食风险的最小化,木器工艺品的生产在新世晚期大量增加。

更新日期:2020-09-21
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