
STAPLETON—BIFACED STONE IMPLEMENTS FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIA 283 
The camp-sites on which the implements were found occur in a region pre- 
viously oceupied by the Buandik tribe of aboriginals, whose territory, according 
to Mrs. James Smith (Smith, 1880), consisted of the tract of country extending 
from the mouth of the Glenele River to Rivoli Bay North, and for about thirty 
miles inland. 
This must indeed have been a land of plenty for its inhabitants. The coastal 
rock formations were most favourable for the catching of fish of many kinds, and 
rock lobsters (Jasus lalanditi) were abundant. There were also fresh water streams 
containing eels, (Agwilla sp.) and one in which mullet (Agonostomus forstert) 

Bifaced Implements, Class A (4 nat. size). 
could easily be caught. The Glenelg River is noted at the present day for its 
mulloway (Sciaena antarctica), its black bream (Sparus australis), and its Taralgi 
(Percalates colonorum). Wild fowl were plentiful in the adjourning swamplands 
and marsupials large and small abundant in the bracken, ti-tree, forests, and the 
grasslands. 
DESCRIPTION OF SITES. 
The site of the camp where the implements were first found was on the shore 
approximately 2 miles west-north-west of Cape Northumberland lighthouse in 
the Hundred of MacDonnell (see Map). At this place the shore is banked by 
flint pebbles of varying sizes, eroded from the soft marine rocks outcropping on 
that part of the coast. The top of these banks was overlain with sand forming a 
coastal shelf and showed indications of native occupation. Piles of fire-blackened 
stones with chareoal and ashes indicated the remains of hearths, while large num- 
bers of flint flakes were strewn over the site. Here the author also found bone 
artefacts resembling the pointing bone of the lower Murray River (in the author’s 
