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Arcoona Collection

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Numerous chert small tools collected from the Arcoona region (Woomera) by amateur archaeologist Ron Hewitt. Whilst based at Woomera, Ron established a keen interest in Indigenous prehistoric occupation. Having met and been encouraged by Walter MacDougall, he began collecting, describing and curating lithics from Arcoona. In 1976 he published a paper on a hoard of stone adzes. Ron gave much of his time and expertise voluntarily to staff at the museum from the 1970s to 90s and has donated a good deal of his collection to the South Australian Museum. The collection is a very valuable expression of the use of fine grained material from a semi arid environment.

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'Aboriginal adze stone hoards found on the Arcoona Plateau, near Woomera South Australia' (1976) by Ron Hewitt, Australian Archaeology Vol 4(14-52).

Data time period: 1990 to 1999

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text: Arcoona Plateau

text: Woomera, South Australia

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Aboriginal artefacts | Aboriginal culture | Aboriginal peoples | Aboriginal peoples (Australians) | Arcoona | Artefacts | Ron Hewitt | archaeology | chert tools | lithics | stone adzes | stone tools | tools |

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