Many aboriginal weapons are for hunting as well as warfare. An Aboriginal guide will show you how to throw a spear, the different types of tools they use, how to make the oldest form of glue from seeds of a local plant, how they make bowls and their uses, and share stories and values of the Aboriginal Culture. Hunting Tools. Aboriginal weapons are collectible. Collectible value depends on age rarity condition and beauty. Original artifacts housed in The Rooms Provincial Museum Division, … Flaked stone tools are one of a range of artefacts that provide Aboriginal people today with an important link to their culture and past. Mr Hamm said they had pushed back the dates on the development of technologies such as bone needles (40,000-38,000 years ago), wood-handled stone tools … Shields and clubs were for warfare. A flawed history. A boomerang or spear thrower can be used for either hunting game or fighting. The Beothuk are the descendants of a Recent Indian culture called the Little Passage Complex. Originally the spears would have had stone or bone points. The major tool for hunting caribou was a spear - called amina. They were Algonkian-speaking hunter-gatherers who probably numbered less than a thousand people at the time of European contact. Traditionally Indigenous Australians have used a variety of tools and weapons in their everyday life, often for collecting food and carrying it from place to place. Archaeological evidence suggests that people got to Australia 50 to 60,000 years ago, but the bone tools dated back 20,000 only, leaving a 40,000 year gap. Grooves outlining the intended tool's form are cut through the hard outer bone to the spongy cancellous tissue using stone tools such as sharp pointed gravers and chisel-ended burins. Some can be quite valuable. The Beothuk are the aboriginal people of the island of Newfoundland. It consisted of a 3 m wooden shaft, tipped with a slender, nearly triangular iron point. Aboriginal Plant use and Technology Stone eel and fish traps Technology ... A great variety of tools, weapons and utensils were used to gather plants for food, fibres and medicine as well as to hunt animals for food and clothing. Breaking bone using the anvil method Grooving and Splitting For some delicate bone tools, it is first necessary to score the parent bone. There were a number of changes to the stone tools used by Aboriginal people over time. Their core belief of living with nature is still applied. In the manufacture of these tools and weapons rocks such as obsidian and quartz were attached to wood to create excellent cutting edges. Because of this, stone tools can help provide an approximate age for the Aboriginal occupation of an area. Beaver may have been harpooned. Beothuk Carved Bone Objects. Other furbearers were shot with arrows or caught in snares, deadfalls or traps. I collect Aboriginal Weapons.