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The Tula Adze: manufacture and purpose

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mark W. Moore
Mark W. Moore*
Affiliation:
University of New England, Department of Human and Environmental Studies, Armidale, New South Wales 2351, Australia
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Toolmakers in Queensland Australia used ingenious knapping techniques to produce an implement with a large bulb of percussion and a gouge-shaped cutting edge: the “gull-wing tula adze”. The author concludes that the tool results from a unique compromise between an inefficient knapping technique and a peculiar – but in this case desirable – phenomenon of fracture mechanics

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LithicsAustraliaQueensland
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Research
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Antiquity , Volume 78 , Issue 299 , March 2004 , pp. 61 - 73
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2004

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