Stone Axe Factories in the Highlands of East New Guinea

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7074552
AutoresJohn Chappell (0000-0001-6946-8662), Marilyn Strathern
Año1966
Volumen32
Páginas96-121
Fecha de publicación1966-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaProceedings of the Prehistoric Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0079-497X • E-ISSN: 2050-2729
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0079497x00014365
OpenAlexW2333196401
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26
Referencias citadas9

The writer spent three months, during late 1963 and early 1964, journeying through the New Guinea Highlands in an attempt to trace sites where stone axes have been made in the recent past. In the Simbai (Tsembaga) and Kaironk areas steel has effectively replaced stone only within the last ten years, though some steel had been traded in a decade or so earlier (Rappaport, n.d.; Bulmer, personal communication). In the other Highlands area discussed in this paper, stone working axes had probably dropped out of use by the early 1940's. Of the ten quarry sites then examined, three had been visited before by earlier workers, two were reported to the writer by an anthropologist, C. Criper, working in the Upper Chimbu, and the others were found by walking about the country pursuing local information

Ancient history · Archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · New guinea · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies