Challenging the ‘offshore hypothesis’ for fossiliferous chert artefacts in southwestern australia and consideration of inland trade routes.

Surface scatters containing Eocene chert artefacts are a widespread cultural site type along the Swan Coastal Plain; however, no source rock for the chert is known to exist locally. In the absence of chert outcrops onshore, archaeologists have argued for an offshore source that was subsequently floo...

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Main Authors: O'Leary, Mick, Ward, I., Key, M., Burkhart, M., Rawson, Chris, Evans, Noreen
Format: Journal Article
Published: Pergamon 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24083