In archaeology, investigations into the social and cultural contexts of stone artefacts have largely focused on their typological styles, manufacturing technologies, functions, geographic distributions and the significance of the quarries they come from. Yet what is oftentimes overlooked is the deeper contemporary understandings by Indigenous groups of the stone artefacts recovered from excavations. In this paper, we analyse an assemblage of 9,642 excavated stone artefacts from the rockshelter site of Walanjiwurru 1 in Marra Country in northern Australia, in light of the cosmological significance of regional stone sources to local Aboriginal groups. Each recovered stone artefact, and the quarries of their raw materials, is laden with meanings that help reveal how Marra Aboriginal people socially and cosmologically engaged with their landscape. By combining archaeological and Marra cultural perspectives, we argue that subtle variations in the range of stones and their relational characteristics signal changing political engagements with ancestral places over the past 2300 years.

在考古学中，对石器的社会和文化背景的调查主要集中在它们的类型风格、制造技术、功能、地理分布以及它们来自的采石场的重要性。然而，经常被忽视的是原住民群体对从挖掘中恢复的石制品的更深层次的当代理解。在本文中，我们根据区域石源对当地土著群体的宇宙学意义，分析了澳大利亚北部马拉县 Walanjiwurru 1 岩石避难所遗址出土的 9,642 件石制品。每件回收的石制品及其原材料的采石场都充满了意义，这些意义有助于揭示马拉土著人如何在社会和宇宙学上与他们的景观互动。