Stone tool.
Image: Rodney Start
Source: Museum Victoria
Stone tool.
Image: Rodney Start
Source: Museum Victoria
Stone tool.
Image: Rodney Start
Source: Museum Victoria
Mt William greenstone was an important resource for the Wurundjeri people of south-eastern Australia. They quarried the hard stone to make ground-edged stone hatchets, general purpose tools for splitting, cutting and shaping wood and for butchering animals. Greenstone hatchets were highly valued and were traded over hundreds of kilometres.