Names

Howchin Type Specimens

IDs

SAMA 40

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Descriptions

In the early 1900s Walter Howchin selected specimens from the Museum collection to begin the first formal descriptions of stone tool types. He concentrated on the Adelaide region and included large and small implements ranging from core scrapers, hammerstones, anvils to blades, scrapers, knives and adzes. These specimens were figured in his publication in 1937. The Museum still holds this figured types as a valuable part of the history of Australian Archaeology.

'The stone implements of the Adelaide Tribe of Aborigines (now extinct)' (1934) by Walter Howchin, Gillingham and Co, Adelaide.

Subjects

Aboriginal artefacts; Aboriginal culture; Aboriginal peoples (Australians); Stone tools; Tools

Aboriginal peoples; Artefacts; Tools

Adzes; Anvils; Blades; Core scrapers; Hammerstones; History of Australian Archaeology; Knives; Scrapers; Stone tool types

Stone tools; Tools

Walter Howchin

Coverage Spatial

Adelaide region

Coverage Temporal

1900

1930

Related Collections

Dates

2012-05-30 23:41

2011-03-18 23:19