Stone Disc Beads from Watinglo Shelter, Northern Papua New Guinea

Authors

  • Sue O’Connor Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601
  • William R. Dickinson Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721

Keywords:

Watinglo shelter, Papua New Guinea archaeology, stone disc beads

Abstract

In 2005 the excavation of a new rockshelter in Papua New Guinea, Watinglo, unearthed the unusual find of four stone disc-shaped beads. Beads such as this have not hitherto been reported from Papua New Guinea. The context, age, technology of manufacture and petrography of the beads are described.

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O’Connor, S. and Dickinson, W. R. (2010) “Stone Disc Beads from Watinglo Shelter, Northern Papua New Guinea”, Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 1(2), pp. 188–191. Available at: https://pacificarchaeology.org/index.php/journal/article/view/29 (Accessed: 28 March 2024).

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Research Reports