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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Notes on the Pens Collection of Australites in the Tate Museum, The University of Adelaide, and their use as artefacts |
Author: | Squire, J. Curnow, P. Milnes, A. Gostin, V. |
Citation: | Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 2023; 147(2):161-172 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
ISSN: | 0372-1426 2204-0293 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jayden Squire, Paul Curnow, Anthony Milnes and Victor Gostin |
Abstract: | The Tate Museum (The University of Adelaide) holds a large collection of (tektites) australites including the Pens Collection from the Florieton area in east-central South Australia. Many of these specimens are intact or near-so and have the various forms ascribed to their behaviour as they entered the Earth’s atmosphere. However, a significant number, some of which may have been initially fractured and broken by erosional processes on the Earth’s surface, were later reworked by Aboriginal Australians to form small tools and hence are important artefacts. Of the Florieton specimens, 6.5% have been reworked into microlithic flakes. This note points to the historical value of the Pens Collection, discusses the nature of the environment in which they were found, and speculates about the collecting and adaptation of australites by Aboriginal Australians. |
Keywords: | Australites; tektites; Mawson; Tate Museum; meteorite impacts; aboriginal culture; aboriginal artefacts |
Description: | Published online: 25 Jul 2023 |
Rights: | © 2023 Royal Society of South Australia |
DOI: | 10.1080/03721426.2023.2240994 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03721426.2023.2240994 |
Appears in Collections: | Earth and Environmental Sciences publications |
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