Amy M Way
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 90173 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amy M Way |
| NOMBRES | Amy M |
| APELLIDO | Way |
| FIRMA | WAY A M |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8896-1815 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Engraved Limestone Block from Švédův stůl Cave, Czech Republic
Garli
The deliberate burial of dingoes by Aboriginal people is a widespread and significant Late Holocene practice in Australia, yet the details of this practice remain poorly understood, in part due to the scarcity of well-documented archaeological excavations. Here, we report on the excavation of a dingo burial in Kinchega National Park on Barkindji Country, in the Menindee Lakes region of western New South Wales. First identified by Barkindji Elders…
Re-excavation of cultural deposits at Švédův stůl cave in the Moravian Karst, Czech Republic
Events, trends and the ‘Pompeii Premise
Continuity and change in lithic material as seen in two sites in the Blue Mountains, NSW
The earliest evidence of high-elevation ice age occupation in Australia
Australia's Eastern Highlands have traditionally been viewed as a cold-climate barrier to Late Pleistocene (~35,000-11,700 years ago) mobility, with older evidence restricted to elevations below the periglacial zone. However, this model has not been adequately tested with regionally specific, high-resolution archaeological data. Here we report excavation results from a high-altitude (1,073 m) cave, Dargan Shelter, in the upper Blue Mountains, whi…
Time is circular
A 600–700‐year‐old basalt adze production site from Mount Bates, Norfolk Island
While pre‐European settlement of Norfolk Island has been recognised for many decades, particularly the larger settlement site at Emily Bay, until this point there has been limited understanding, and very little systematic recording of evidence for inland settlement. This report presents the location, chronology, stratigraphy and artefact assemblage of a previously undocumented lithic production site from Mount Bates in the north‐western uplands o…
What Do We Know About Threshing Traditional Grains in Australia
This article reviews ethnographic descriptions of Australia's First Nations people's grain threshing to inform future grain research and revival of practice in south-eastern Australia. The processing of grain requires many steps, and while harvesting, winnowing and grinding are comparatively well-documented, the threshing stage, which involves the removal of the husk and other nonedible parts of the seed head before the seed is winnowed and groun…
Investigating hafting and composite tool repair as factors creating variability in backed artefacts
Across the Australian continent, backed artefacts are produced in enormous numbers during the mid‐late Holocene. Previous examinations have revealed variation in the average shape of these artefacts, at both continental and regional scales. To better understand the factors creating this variability, we examine a large assemblage of backed artefacts from Ngungara (Weereewa/Lake George), in south‐eastern Australia. This is one of the few open sites…
The archaeology of overburden
The evolution of Still Bay points at Sibudu
Are the widespread scatters of stone artefacts on dune surfaces in southeastern arid Australia really late Holocene in age
Vast numbers of stone artefact clusters (commonly called artefact scatters) occur on dune surfaces throughout southeastern arid Australia, virtually all of them undated. They were interpreted by researchers in the 1980s and 1990s as being mainly of late Holocene age on the basis of their surface or near-surface locations and the composition of their assemblages, which include backed artefacts, tulas and unifacial points. In this article, we analy…
Preliminary report of the 2019 excavation at Švédův Stůl Cave in the Moravian Karst
Švédův Stůl Cave in the Moravian Karst has been excavated several times since Martin Kříž started the first excavation in 1886. Two parts of the site were re-excavated in 2019. The primary aim was to conduct classical as well as innovative and experimental sedimentological and geoarchaeological investigations of sediments from the discarded spoil heap outside the cave entrance (trench C–D). Intact sediments with a small number of lithic artefacts…
Rethinking the Desirability of Quartz for the Manufacture of Standardized Retouched Flakes
Quartz is regularly held to be of lower quality than fine-grained siliceous (FGS) material and often correlated with lower levels of retouch. This paper examines the “desirability” of quartz as a raw material for the production of backed artefacts in a landscape which also contains fine-grained siliceous material. Quartz, chert and silcrete backed artefact manufacturing strategies and morphologies are compared to examine whether technological cho…
New Evidence from Ořechov IV (Czech Republic) for the Production of Microblades During the Bohunician
A behavioral approach to cumulative palimpsests
Dig It, Design It
A new simulation tool for the assessment of subsurface testing
The Identification and Recovery of Backing Debitage
This study presents a new method for the detection of backed artifact industries through the identification of backing debitage. The waste flakes produced during backing retouch are found to have a combination of unique attributes that distinguish them from other small retouch and core reduction flakes. Experimentally produced flakes are compared with an assemblage from a mid-late Holocene site in southeastern Australia, which contains multiple b…
The Design, Application and Evaluation of an Effective Subsurface Sampling Strategy
Subsurface sampling programs are regularly employed to detect buried archaeological material in open landscapes. Rarely, however, is the effectiveness of the sampling program assessed through subsequent excavation. Here, an optimal subsurface testing strategy is designed using Kintigh’s simulation approach to locate prehistoric knapping floors and is applied to an open landscape in southeastern Australia. Several prehistoric knapping floors were …
Test-pitting and the detection of sub-surface sites
Test-pitting is regularly conducted in NSW to investigate the presence, nature and extent of an archaeological deposit and consequently whether a proposed development activity has the potential to harm Aboriginal artefacts. The conditions for undertaking test excavation are specified in The Code of Practice for Archaeological Investigation of Aboriginal Objects in NSW (the Code). The Code limits test excavation in terms of test excavation unit sp…
Prehistoric mining at Olympic Dam in arid South Australia
A site in the Olympic Dam area, recorded during archaeological surveying as a silcrete quarry, was investigated. Hand‐excavated squares and subsequent machine‐excavated trenches revealed an ancient “mine” rather than a simple surface quarry. Blocks of high‐quality silcrete were levered from below the ground surface and many were knapped in the immediate area. Rubble in the pit backfills included large numbers of flakes. Single‐grain optical dates…
Rethinking the Desirability of Quartz for the Manufacture of Standardized Retouched Flakes
Quartz is regularly held to be of lower quality than fine-grained siliceous (FGS) material and often correlated with lower levels of retouch. This paper examines the “desirability” of quartz as a raw material for the production of backed artefacts in a landscape which also contains fine-grained siliceous material. Quartz, chert and silcrete backed artefact manufacturing strategies and morphologies are compared to examine whether technological cho…
The Identification and Recovery of Backing Debitage
This study presents a new method for the detection of backed artifact industries through the identification of backing debitage. The waste flakes produced during backing retouch are found to have a combination of unique attributes that distinguish them from other small retouch and core reduction flakes. Experimentally produced flakes are compared with an assemblage from a mid-late Holocene site in southeastern Australia, which contains multiple b…
Test-pitting and the detection of sub-surface sites
Test-pitting is regularly conducted in NSW to investigate the presence, nature and extent of an archaeological deposit and consequently whether a proposed development activity has the potential to harm Aboriginal artefacts. The conditions for undertaking test excavation are specified in The Code of Practice for Archaeological Investigation of Aboriginal Objects in NSW (the Code). The Code limits test excavation in terms of test excavation unit sp…
Investigating hafting and composite tool repair as factors creating variability in backed artefacts
Across the Australian continent, backed artefacts are produced in enormous numbers during the mid‐late Holocene. Previous examinations have revealed variation in the average shape of these artefacts, at both continental and regional scales. To better understand the factors creating this variability, we examine a large assemblage of backed artefacts from Ngungara (Weereewa/Lake George), in south‐eastern Australia. This is one of the few open sites…
The archaeology of overburden
The evolution of Still Bay points at Sibudu
Prehistoric mining at Olympic Dam in arid South Australia
A site in the Olympic Dam area, recorded during archaeological surveying as a silcrete quarry, was investigated. Hand‐excavated squares and subsequent machine‐excavated trenches revealed an ancient “mine” rather than a simple surface quarry. Blocks of high‐quality silcrete were levered from below the ground surface and many were knapped in the immediate area. Rubble in the pit backfills included large numbers of flakes. Single‐grain optical dates…
The earliest evidence of high-elevation ice age occupation in Australia
Australia's Eastern Highlands have traditionally been viewed as a cold-climate barrier to Late Pleistocene (~35,000-11,700 years ago) mobility, with older evidence restricted to elevations below the periglacial zone. However, this model has not been adequately tested with regionally specific, high-resolution archaeological data. Here we report excavation results from a high-altitude (1,073 m) cave, Dargan Shelter, in the upper Blue Mountains, whi…
Preliminary report of the 2019 excavation at Švédův Stůl Cave in the Moravian Karst
Švédův Stůl Cave in the Moravian Karst has been excavated several times since Martin Kříž started the first excavation in 1886. Two parts of the site were re-excavated in 2019. The primary aim was to conduct classical as well as innovative and experimental sedimentological and geoarchaeological investigations of sediments from the discarded spoil heap outside the cave entrance (trench C–D). Intact sediments with a small number of lithic artefacts…
A new simulation tool for the assessment of subsurface testing
The Design, Application and Evaluation of an Effective Subsurface Sampling Strategy
Subsurface sampling programs are regularly employed to detect buried archaeological material in open landscapes. Rarely, however, is the effectiveness of the sampling program assessed through subsequent excavation. Here, an optimal subsurface testing strategy is designed using Kintigh’s simulation approach to locate prehistoric knapping floors and is applied to an open landscape in southeastern Australia. Several prehistoric knapping floors were …
Prehistoric mining at Olympic Dam in arid South Australia
A site in the Olympic Dam area, recorded during archaeological surveying as a silcrete quarry, was investigated. Hand‐excavated squares and subsequent machine‐excavated trenches revealed an ancient “mine” rather than a simple surface quarry. Blocks of high‐quality silcrete were levered from below the ground surface and many were knapped in the immediate area. Rubble in the pit backfills included large numbers of flakes. Single‐grain optical dates…
The Design, Application and Evaluation of an Effective Subsurface Sampling Strategy
Subsurface sampling programs are regularly employed to detect buried archaeological material in open landscapes. Rarely, however, is the effectiveness of the sampling program assessed through subsequent excavation. Here, an optimal subsurface testing strategy is designed using Kintigh’s simulation approach to locate prehistoric knapping floors and is applied to an open landscape in southeastern Australia. Several prehistoric knapping floors were …
Test-pitting and the detection of sub-surface sites
Test-pitting is regularly conducted in NSW to investigate the presence, nature and extent of an archaeological deposit and consequently whether a proposed development activity has the potential to harm Aboriginal artefacts. The conditions for undertaking test excavation are specified in The Code of Practice for Archaeological Investigation of Aboriginal Objects in NSW (the Code). The Code limits test excavation in terms of test excavation unit sp…
A behavioral approach to cumulative palimpsests
Dig It, Design It
A new simulation tool for the assessment of subsurface testing
The Identification and Recovery of Backing Debitage
This study presents a new method for the detection of backed artifact industries through the identification of backing debitage. The waste flakes produced during backing retouch are found to have a combination of unique attributes that distinguish them from other small retouch and core reduction flakes. Experimentally produced flakes are compared with an assemblage from a mid-late Holocene site in southeastern Australia, which contains multiple b…
New Evidence from Ořechov IV (Czech Republic) for the Production of Microblades During the Bohunician
Are the widespread scatters of stone artefacts on dune surfaces in southeastern arid Australia really late Holocene in age
Vast numbers of stone artefact clusters (commonly called artefact scatters) occur on dune surfaces throughout southeastern arid Australia, virtually all of them undated. They were interpreted by researchers in the 1980s and 1990s as being mainly of late Holocene age on the basis of their surface or near-surface locations and the composition of their assemblages, which include backed artefacts, tulas and unifacial points. In this article, we analy…
Preliminary report of the 2019 excavation at Švédův Stůl Cave in the Moravian Karst
Švédův Stůl Cave in the Moravian Karst has been excavated several times since Martin Kříž started the first excavation in 1886. Two parts of the site were re-excavated in 2019. The primary aim was to conduct classical as well as innovative and experimental sedimentological and geoarchaeological investigations of sediments from the discarded spoil heap outside the cave entrance (trench C–D). Intact sediments with a small number of lithic artefacts…
Rethinking the Desirability of Quartz for the Manufacture of Standardized Retouched Flakes
Quartz is regularly held to be of lower quality than fine-grained siliceous (FGS) material and often correlated with lower levels of retouch. This paper examines the “desirability” of quartz as a raw material for the production of backed artefacts in a landscape which also contains fine-grained siliceous material. Quartz, chert and silcrete backed artefact manufacturing strategies and morphologies are compared to examine whether technological cho…
The archaeology of overburden
The evolution of Still Bay points at Sibudu
What Do We Know About Threshing Traditional Grains in Australia
This article reviews ethnographic descriptions of Australia's First Nations people's grain threshing to inform future grain research and revival of practice in south-eastern Australia. The processing of grain requires many steps, and while harvesting, winnowing and grinding are comparatively well-documented, the threshing stage, which involves the removal of the husk and other nonedible parts of the seed head before the seed is winnowed and groun…
Investigating hafting and composite tool repair as factors creating variability in backed artefacts
Across the Australian continent, backed artefacts are produced in enormous numbers during the mid‐late Holocene. Previous examinations have revealed variation in the average shape of these artefacts, at both continental and regional scales. To better understand the factors creating this variability, we examine a large assemblage of backed artefacts from Ngungara (Weereewa/Lake George), in south‐eastern Australia. This is one of the few open sites…
Time is circular
A 600–700‐year‐old basalt adze production site from Mount Bates, Norfolk Island
While pre‐European settlement of Norfolk Island has been recognised for many decades, particularly the larger settlement site at Emily Bay, until this point there has been limited understanding, and very little systematic recording of evidence for inland settlement. This report presents the location, chronology, stratigraphy and artefact assemblage of a previously undocumented lithic production site from Mount Bates in the north‐western uplands o…
Re-excavation of cultural deposits at Švédův stůl cave in the Moravian Karst, Czech Republic
Events, trends and the ‘Pompeii Premise
Continuity and change in lithic material as seen in two sites in the Blue Mountains, NSW
The earliest evidence of high-elevation ice age occupation in Australia
Australia's Eastern Highlands have traditionally been viewed as a cold-climate barrier to Late Pleistocene (~35,000-11,700 years ago) mobility, with older evidence restricted to elevations below the periglacial zone. However, this model has not been adequately tested with regionally specific, high-resolution archaeological data. Here we report excavation results from a high-altitude (1,073 m) cave, Dargan Shelter, in the upper Blue Mountains, whi…
Engraved Limestone Block from Švédův stůl Cave, Czech Republic
Garli
The deliberate burial of dingoes by Aboriginal people is a widespread and significant Late Holocene practice in Australia, yet the details of this practice remain poorly understood, in part due to the scarcity of well-documented archaeological excavations. Here, we report on the excavation of a dingo burial in Kinchega National Park on Barkindji Country, in the Menindee Lakes region of western New South Wales. First identified by Barkindji Elders…
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (17 obras) · Archaeology (16 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 obras) · Geography (13 obras) · Geology (13 obras) · Paleontology (8 obras) · History (7 obras) · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction (6 obras) · Excavation (5 obras) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (5 obras)