Aboriginal Rock Tools

The types of tools. Aboriginal people put a mixture of ochre water and animal fat sourced from emu kangaroo or echidna into their mouth and blew it across their hand which rested on a rock surface.

Identifying Aboriginal Stone Tools By Philip Jensen Issuu

Hayden observed a number of western desert men and women making and using stone tools as they remembered from their youth when such tools were being made and used in normal daily life.

Aboriginal rock tools. Many flaked stone artefacts found on aboriginal places are made from stone types that do not occur naturally in the area. These stone flakes represent the tools aboriginal people used such as knives spear points scrapers and awls and the waste material left behind when they were made. Chert quartzite silcrete spongolite quartz and other types of rock were used.

Most of them are carried by the aboriginals when they want to gather food in the australian outback. 10 facts about aboriginal food. Aboriginal people quarried particular stone outcrops or collected stones from river beds and coastal zones to create a sophisticated set of tools.

Stone tools were used for hunting carrying food for making ochre nets clothing baskets and more. These tools supported a wooden shaft that was used to friction drill a piece of wood the friction caused would be a method of fire. This aspect of aboriginal life in the western desert has also been studied by a number of other authors gould 1969.

Some tools created by the aboriginal people include spears boomerangs and dilly bangs. Crude hand held choppers and hand axes used for cutting into trees and butchering animals. Gould et al 1971.

Facts about aboriginal tools 1. Aboriginal people quarried such stone from outcrops of bedrock or collected it as pebbles from stream beds and beaches. Aboriginal stone tools were highly sophisticated in their range and uses.

The ochre chemically reacted with and sunk into the surface of the rock just like ink does into paper. This video looks at two examples of aboriginal fire stone tools. In the book source 1 hayden discusses the attitude of the aboriginals of the western desert to the making and using of stone tools.

Stone and natural glass were fashioned into chisels saws knifes axes and spearheads. The range of aboriginal stone tools and artefacts utilised in australia includes. Commonly referred to as stone artefact scatters such sites can be found on the surface or exposed by ploughing or erosion or through careful archaeological excavation.

Curator barb paulson and ngunnawal man wally bell discuss indigenous stone tools as part of the national museum s defining moments in australian history project. A hand axe shaped like a giant double mussel shell. This means they must have been carried long distances.

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