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The first archaeological evidence for death by spearing in Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Josephine J. McDonald ,
Denise Donlon ,
Judith H. Field ,
Richard L.K. Fullagar ,
Joan Brenner Coltrain ,
Peter Mitchell  and
Mark Rawson

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Antiquity Project Gallery , Volume 81 , Issue 314 , December 2007 , pp. 1
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Copyright © The Author(s), [2007]. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd.

This paper is published in full in Antiquity Vol. 81 Issue 314 December 2007. Here we publish Table 1: a summary of usewear and residues on stone artefacts from the Narrabeen site

Table 1.Summary of usewear and residues on stone artefacts from the Narrabeen site.

1 Type refers to presence of backing and technological classes

2 Tip Cross sectional area after Reference SheaShea 2006

3 Observations are from incident light only. Residues have not yet been removed for study under transmitted light microscopy

4 Use refers confidence of interpretations, as follows: 0 (no traces of use), 1 (possible), 2 (probable) and 3 (definite)

5 Function refers to the likely cause of dominant usewear. Tan indicates protruding oblique impact; rose indicates head-on impact; gold indicates dominant function not from hard impact

6 Grey shading indicates conjoin set

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Table 1. Summary of usewear and residues on stone artefacts from the Narrabeen site.