Multi‐Century Grindstone Quarrying at Brumby Yard, Queensland

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ID6038779
AutoresKieran Mcgee (0000-0003-3897-1024, School of Humanities The University of Sydney Camperdown Australia), Justine Kemp (0000-0003-0472-6960, School of Environment and Science Griffith University Nathan Australia), Joshua Gorringe (Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation Windorah Australia), George Gorringe (Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation Windorah Australia), Trudy Gorringe (Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation Windorah Australia)
Ano2025
Volume60
Fascículo2
Páginas176-186
Data de publicação2025-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoArchaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0728-4896 • E-ISSN: 1834-4453
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/arco.5352
OpenAlexW4411042450
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas45

The timing and duration of prehistoric quarrying is poorly understood within Australia, with limited ages available for quarries owing to the difficulties in dating these rock‐sediment constructions. We report the first multi‐sample, optically stimulated luminescence ages from quarry pits in Brumby Yard, an Aboriginal grindstone quarry situated in the Channel Country region of Western Queensland. Our results indicate three pit abandonments at ∼970, ∼600 and ∼540 years ago. Our results present the first absolute dating evidence that quarrying was a complex, multi‐century practice with the use of open sections of the quarry in the presence of abandoned pits

Archaeology · Geography · Geomorphology · Plucking · Prehistory · Yard · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology