Language: English
Published by Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS), Canberra, 1972
ISBN 10: 0855750251 ISBN 13: 9780855750251
Seller: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
Paperback large quarto, good plus condition, glossy card cover, black & white text-photos (plates), black & white & single-colour maps, corners front cover creased (slightly affects first several bottom corner pages), base spine bumped, fading spine & fore-edge strip front cover, some edgewear. 131 pp. Ray Binns and Isabel McBryde provide a geological study of ground-edge axes used by Australian Aborigines with the purpose of identifying their mineral composition and origin. (No 47 in the 'Australian Aboriginal Studies Series', from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. An earlier version is published in 1969 in the academic journal 'Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society', volume 35.).