A spearthrower butt from Widgingarri, Western Kimberley, Western Australia

Michelle Langley; Rose Whitau; India Ella Dilkes-Hall; Moya Smith; Susan O'Connor

doi:10.1080/03122417.2019.1596372

A spearthrower butt from Widgingarri, Western Kimberley, Western Australia

Michelle Langley, Rose Whitau, India Ella Dilkes-Hall, Moya Smith, Susan O'Connor

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Despite the dominance of wood-based technologies in Australian Aboriginal techno-complexes, recovery of archaeological examples is exceedingly rare in the north of the continent where environmental conditions are most harsh for such archaeologically fragile items. Here we report the discovery of a 210 year old spearthrower butt made from bat-wing coral tree (Erythrina vespertilio) from the Worrorra site of Widgingarri 9 (western Kimberley).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	102-107
Journal	Australian Archaeology
Volume	85
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2019.1596372
Publication status	Published - 2019

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A spearthrower butt from Widgingarri, Western Kimberley, Western Australia

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