Aboriginal people are thought to be one of the first to use stone tools to grind seeds, and the first to create ground edges on stone tools.
Some types of stone taken from quarries include silcrete, chert and some fine volcanics. I wonder though if some of it originates from a culture clash with a stone age people. Other wooden tools include digging sticks, adzes and clapsticks. Heavy stone tools. Flaked stone tools used by Aboriginal people up to 40,000 years ago have been uncovered during major roadworks in Gippsland. Wooden tools and utensils included: Chisels and scrapers (stone pieces) hafted to long wooden handles. ... Aboriginal axes have a stone head and a bent cane shaft. (See the section on stone tools.) Other wooden tools. James Kohen, in his book Aboriginal Environmental Impacts, describes the Aboriginal stone tool assemblage of Karta as "heavy core tools and pebble choppers". TOOLS, UTENSILS, AND WEAPONS - 1. These stone flakes represent the tools Aboriginal people used, such as knives, spear points, scrapers and …

Stone and natural glass were fashioned into chisels, saws, knifes, axes and spearheads. 37 x 21.5 cm There is a sharp stone or kangaroo teeth set in the end of the adze with resin. Australian Aborigines manufactured a range of tools, utensils, fighting weapons, and hunting weapons made from the available resources of wood, bone and shell. A stone quarry is a site in which Aboriginal people collected suitable types of stone for the manufacturing of tools, ceremonial and sacred items. The stone head is held in place with fired resin. A lot of it is the direct result of the treatment by the white man. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. Digging sticks are long and hard, with the end pointed and often hardened over a fire.
their hunting tools were boomerangs (wood) and spears (wooden construction with wood or bone tips). Such Kartan tools are also, writes Kohen, found on the South Australian coast, the Flinders Ranges, and … String Developments in Aboriginal stone — or lithic — technologies over the last 40,000 years are still being debated by archaeologists and new ‘methodologies’ are slowly unfolding with terminologies which differ substantially from those developed in the 19 th century to classify African and European stone artifacts (dating from 2.5 million years ago). Stone tools were used for hunting, carrying food, for making ochre, nets, clothing, baskets and more. Aboriginal weapons can be divided into 6 main types being spears, spear throwers, clubs, shields, boomerangs and sorcery. Obviously Australia's Aboriginal people have a lot of problems at the moment. Adzes are used for scraping out other wooden tools, such as boomerangs and coolamons. Laang (stone) is highly utilised to sustain booboop narrkwarren-in (your family).Dirrandil (seeds) and bulbs/tubers are ground to create ngurrung (bread) to be baked in an earth oven.Wilam (bark/shelter) is also ground down to create medicine, or to create a wilam (shelter/bark). Victorian Aboriginal sites include shell middens, scarred trees, cooking mounds, rock art, burials, ceremonial sites and innumerable stone artefacts. with an ancient uniface pecked & polished stone & more modern 100-150 years old hafting, from Central Australia, previously owned by Lord McAlpine of West Green (1942-2014). In 2016 the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander archaeology department received a donation of over 3 500 Aboriginal stone tools from across Western NSW by the collector John Frazer. Hafted Aboriginal stone axe. An interview with Mr. John Frazer who recently donated a collection of over 3 500 Aboriginal stone tools from across the Western NSW region. Aboriginal weapons are collectable.