Ross, June

Smith, Mike

2009

A new find of an engraved 'archaic face' in the Toomba Range, on the northeastern edge of the Simpson Desert, provides additional evidence for the production of these distinctive motifs on the eastern side of the arid zone (Figure 1). This supplements an earlier report of an engraved archaic face at Carbine Creek, 100km to the northeast of the Toomba Range (Morwood 1978, 1985). Together, these two engravings with characteristic bas-relief facial features extend the known distribution of archaic faces and suggest that sometime in the past people shared aspects of a common visual vocabulary across the entire breadth of the arid zone, north of the Tropic of Capricorn.

Australian Archaeology, v.69, p. 68-70

2470-0363

0312-2417

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/6574

en

Australian Archaeological Association Inc

An Engraved 'Archaic Face' in the Northeastern Simpson Desert

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