The first archaeological evidence for death by spearing in Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3174174 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Mcdonald (0000-0002-2701-7406, Australian National University), Josephine J Mcdonald, Denise Donlon (0000-0003-1987-240X, The University of Sydney), Judith H Field (0000-0001-6807-1858, The University of Sydney), Richard Fullagar (0000-0003-1047-1466, The University of Sydney), Richard L K Fullagar, Joan Brenner Coltrain (0000-0002-2461-5136, University of Utah), Peter Mitchell (0000-0002-3112-3578), Mark Rawson (Bush Heritage Australia) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 314 |
| Pages | 877-885 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00095971 |
| OpenAlex | W2097969486 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
| References cited | 22 |
An Aboriginal man done to death on the dunes 4000 years ago was recently discovered during excavations beneath a bus shelter in Narrabeen on Sydney's northern beaches. The presence of backed microliths and the evidence for trauma in the bones showed that he had been killed with stone-tipped spears. Now we know how these backed points were used. A punishment ritual is implied by analogies with contact-period observations made in the eighteenth century AD
Ancient history · Archaeological evidence · Archaeology · Art · Excavation · Geography · Period (music) · Punishment (psychology) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · Paleopathology and ancient diseases · Psychology
Mute Or Mutable? Archaeological Significance, Research and Cultural Heritage Management in Australia
Forum
McDonald, Josephine J.
Slot-type fractures of the scapula at New Kingdom Tell El-Amarna, Egypt
Integrating Stable Isotope and Zooarchaeological Analyses in Historical Archaeology
Graman Revisited Once Again
The changing abundance of backed artefacts in south-eastern Australia
The performance of heat-treated silcrete backed pieces in actualistic and controlled complex projectile experiments
Lithic miniaturization in Late Pleistocene southern Africa
Stone tool backing and adhesion in hunting weaponry
Deadly weapons
Uncertain Evidence for Weapons and Craft Tools
Horizons of Change
Dreamtime Superhighway (TA27)
Archaeological Science Under a Microscope
Dreamtime Superhighway
Vanished Wars of Australia
Contextual approaches to studying unretouched bladelets
Aboriginal responses to Late Quaternary environmental change in a Mediterranean-type region
Shame, scientist! Degradation rituals in science
Aboriginal uses for introduced glass, ceramic and flint from the former Schofields Aerodrome, Western Sydney (Darug Country), New South Wales
Direct dating of resin hafted point technology in Australia
Disrupting paradise
Gravettian weaponry
Hunting with Howiesons Poort segments
A Segment is not a Monolith
Tracing Identity in a Fragmented Past
Mid-to-Late Holocene Aboriginal Flaked Stone Artefact Technology on the Cumberland Plain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Story is in the Rocks
Biocultural interpretations of trauma in two prehistoric Pacific Island populations from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
Testing predictions for symmetry, variability and chronology of backed artefact production in Australia's Western Desert
Small Signals
Residue and use‐wear analysis of non‐backed retouched artefacts from Deep Creek Shelter, Sydney Basin
Looking for the proverbial needle? The archaeology of Australian colonial frontier massacres
Organizing the manufacture of Bondi points at Balmoral Beach, Middle Harbour, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Late Holocene hunting economies in coastal southeastern Australia
Late Holocene technological provisioning at the Kings Table rockshelter, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia
Experimental and archaeological investigations of backed microlith function among Mid-to-Late Holocene herders in southwestern Kenya
The Origins of War
Big debates over little tools
Introduction
Multiple uses for Australian backed artefacts
The death of Kaakutja
Palaeopathology of Aboriginal Australians
Thinking Small
Australia’s Eastern Regional Sequence Revisited
Stable isotopic analysis of human diet in the Marianas Archipelago, Western Pacific
Skeletal age determination based on the os pubis
Bone collagen stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes as indicators of past human diet and landscape use in southeastern South Australia
Sealing, whaling and caribou
Insight
"New Findings on the Tyrolean "Ice Man
Quantitative exploration of size variation and the extent of reduction in Sydney Basin assemblages
Stable Carbon and Nitrogen isotope evidence for prehistoric hunter‐gatherer diet in the lower Murray River basin, South Australia
Bedrock notions and isochrestic choice
New Pleistocene ages for backed artefact technology in Australia
The cemetery as symbol. The distribution of prehistoric Aboriginal burial grounds in southeastern Australia
Pattern and Context in the Holocene Proliferation of Backed Artifacts in Australia
Backed tools in Middle Pleistocene central Africa and their evolutionary significance
Early Natufian remains
Towards an understanding of hafting
| Unique citing works | 43 |
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| Citations per year | 2,39 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 41 |