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I found the top layers sandy for a few inches then shells stones and refuse to a depth of just on 3 feet , then a layer of limy ground varying from an inch to 3 inches thick and so on in alternating layers of ashes earth lime and shells ...
I found the top layers sandy for a few inches then shells stones and refuse to a depth of just on 3 feet , then a layer of limy ground varying from an inch to 3 inches thick and so on in alternating layers of ashes earth lime and shells ...
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The raw pigments may have been ground on a quartzite grindstone , using a muller of the same material , which would introduce foreign material . The pigment was mixed with some sort of binder and probably liquefied with additional fluid ...
The raw pigments may have been ground on a quartzite grindstone , using a muller of the same material , which would introduce foreign material . The pigment was mixed with some sort of binder and probably liquefied with additional fluid ...
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There is , moreover , no indication that , until recently , the genuineness of this artefact has been doubted by any of those who have seen it , and then only on the grounds of the remarkable state of preservation of the painting .
There is , moreover , no indication that , until recently , the genuineness of this artefact has been doubted by any of those who have seen it , and then only on the grounds of the remarkable state of preservation of the painting .
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| Title | Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum Volume 99, Issue 6 of Annals of the South African Museum, South African Museum |
| Author | South African Museum |
| Publisher | West, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Jul 2016 |
| ISBN | 0868131121, 9780868131122 |
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