Preliminary investigation of Indigenous campsites in late Quaternary dunes, Port Augusta, South Australia
13th November 2013
Keryn Walshe, John Prescott, Frances Williams and Martin Williams
Introduction*
A series of late Quaternary dunes are located in the vicinity of Port Augusta in the mid-north of South Australia. Observations of deflating archaeological material were first
recorded by Norman B. Tindale during the 1939 Harvard-Adelaide University Anthropological Expedition (Tindale 1939:827).
material weathering out belonged to a single period. (see collection of specimens).
Records of similar material at nearby Dempsey’s Lake were made by Cooper (1953) and Lampert (1976). Dempsey’s Lake was the focus of palaeontological investigations during the 1950’s from which time a certain amount of Diprotodon skeletal material was recovered. Stone tools described as consistent with ‘Kartan’ industries have also been recovered and are generally characteristic of the core tool and scraper tradition (Lampert 1976). Lampert (1976) also noted the absence of small tools ‘such as pirris and tulas’. The fossil bone and stone tools were exposed on an “eroded red sand dune running in a straight line from north west to south east” (Lampert 1976:12).
*Note that an abstract was not included with this paper, and so the introductory paragraph has been included here instead of the abstract.
Walshe, K., J. Prescott, F. Williams and M. WilliamsPreliminary investigation of Indigenous campsites in late Quaternary dunes, Port Augusta, South Australia
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