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‘Nowadays with glass’: regional variation in Aboriginal bottle glass artefacts from Western Australia
Author(s) -
Harrison Rodney
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
archaeology in oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1834-4453
pISSN - 0728-4896
DOI - 10.1002/j.1834-4453.2000.tb00449.x
Subject(s) - bottle , archaeology , variation (astronomy) , glass production , flat glass , regional variation , geography , materials science , composite material , advertising , physics , astrophysics , business
This paper builds on the few well known analyses of glass artefacts by recognising that bottle shape strongly influences glass artefact morphology in glass tool manufacture. Analysis of Aboriginally worked glass artefacts, using similar bottles, from two regions in Western Australia show differences that cannot be attributed to regional variation in raw materials. These differences may relate to long term approaches to artefact manufacture.