The Excavation of an Aboriginal rock-shelter on Gymea Bay, Port Hacking, N.S.W.
Sydney: Archaeology & Physical Anthropology in Oceania, 1966. 1st thus, slim quarto, pp 23-50 and 4 leaves of plates, b&w illus, b&w plates, folding distribution map (complete), original printed stapled wraps. Near-fine condition.
Reprinted from "Archaeology & Physical Anthropology in Oceania" vol. 1, no. 1, April 1966. It covers: Account of excavation, finding of skeleton, description of midden and material from middens flaked stone implements, ground stone and bone implements; history of area and survey of early literature, comments on fish - hook files and fishing; the muduk and other bone points, general ecology of area; stake hole pattern, features of the Gymea burials; reports on skeletons and molluscs from midden; faunal remains, wood charcoals; bibliography. Includes illustrations and photographs with a folding distribution map of the Aboriginal Sites at Port Hacking (N.S.W.), which was known to the Dharawal People as Djeebahn, or Deeban. Item #104992
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