Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... Pleistocene , or ancient Quaternary . Whether they are justified or not for the South African implements , the general terms will prove useful ; but whether these divisions as now accepted will prove provisional , in view of the later ...
... Pleistocene , or ancient Quaternary . Whether they are justified or not for the South African implements , the general terms will prove useful ; but whether these divisions as now accepted will prove provisional , in view of the later ...
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... . This period , divided in two successive ones , is the age pre - eminently of the reindeer , and it leads progressively from the old Quaternary or Pleistocene to the actual Quaternary The Stone Ages of South Africa . 11.
... . This period , divided in two successive ones , is the age pre - eminently of the reindeer , and it leads progressively from the old Quaternary or Pleistocene to the actual Quaternary The Stone Ages of South Africa . 11.
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... pleistocene man may seem if his physical characters only are taken into consideration , yet he buries his dead with care . Of the skeleton found in the classic grotto of " Le Moustier , " it is said : " The posture is that of repose ...
... pleistocene man may seem if his physical characters only are taken into consideration , yet he buries his dead with care . Of the skeleton found in the classic grotto of " Le Moustier , " it is said : " The posture is that of repose ...
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... Pleistocene was small , about five feet in height . It is hardly probable that he trusted either singly or collectively to his strength alone to attack or repel the fera nature that threatened his existence , or to capture those that ...
... Pleistocene was small , about five feet in height . It is hardly probable that he trusted either singly or collectively to his strength alone to attack or repel the fera nature that threatened his existence , or to capture those that ...
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... pleistocene ice - age clearly proves that there did not exist at the time the increasing rigour of the elements that has come to prevail in the country whence he retreats , either following the migration of the game on which he subsists ...
... pleistocene ice - age clearly proves that there did not exist at the time the increasing rigour of the elements that has come to prevail in the country whence he retreats , either following the migration of the game on which he subsists ...
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aborigines Acheulean Africa ancient animals antiquity appear arrows artefacts Aurignacian awls Barkly West beads bouchers boulders Bush Bushman Cape Colony Cape Flats Cape Town CHAPTER Chellean chips Coldstream cave CRADOCK culture deposit diabase digging discovered dolerite edge Europe evidence examples feet figured finished flakes fragments gravel Griqua groove hafted holes Hottentots Hyæna jasper Kaffir knife-scraper kwès lithic littoral Magdalenian makers manufacture material middens mortars Mossel Bay Mousterian Mousterian type mullers Museum negroid neolithic Newman collo Nooitgedacht nuclei obtained ornaments ostrich egg-shell Paarl paintings palæoliths paring pebble pieces plainly pots pottery pounders Prieska primitive probably proved pygmies quartzite race relics remains represented resemblance Rhodesia rock rock-shelters rounded sand sand-dunes sandstone scraper-knives scrapers secondary trimming shape shells side Simondium skeletons skulls smooth Solutrian South African specimens steatopygia Stellenbosch stone implements Strand Looper Strandloopers surface thick traces Vaal River VIII water-worn West