| Abstract: |
This paper presents a preliminary description of large stone implements from the Central Highlands of Australian New Guinea. The new data include three collections of recent stone axe blades as well as artefacts excavated from two rock shelter sites. The implements will be discussed in terms of four general classes: axe-adze blades, waisted blades, pebble tools and large flake tools. They include what are, so far as the author is aware, the first records from interior New Guinea of pre-Neolithic stone industries.
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