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A COLLECTION of reprints, all concerned with the stone age industries from certain parts of Australia, has been received*. The novel feature is the collaboration of Mr. H. V. V. Noone, who is an expert in the typology and technology of the older stone age industries of western Europe, and who therefore ensures that descriptive terms used there shall not be employed to describe something different in the Antipodes. This is very important, as heretofore there has always been the danger that, for example, Australian tools described as burins might not really be burins at all. There are few good collections of European stone age industries in Australia, and Australian prehistorians have had to judge solely from pictures—never a very safe proceeding. If any kind of comparative work is to be done, a proper use of sensible descriptive terms universally is a sine qua non. It is to be hoped, then, that the above collaborators will extend their activities to other parts of Australia as well.
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BURKITT, M. The Stone Age in South Australia. Nature 155, 185 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155185a0
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