New Guinea, and especially Papua New Guinea, is the last country in the world where ethnologists were able to closely observe, film and photograph the whole manufacturing cha nes op ratoires of polished stone felling tools, from quarry extraction to finished tool use.
Research on the polished blades of PNG has evolved over the years, following changing philosophies and research agendas.
While it is clear that an exceptional sum of information has been gathered, it remains centered on that sma.
Oxbow Books Limited Ecology of a tool: the ground stone axes of irian jaya (indonesia), hardcover/pierre perequin
