Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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Page 7
... already ex- pressed my belief , based on purely antiquarian grounds , and according to the tenets of the classification generally accepted , that " we have in South Africa evidence of two periods : a paleolithic and a recent one , which ...
... already ex- pressed my belief , based on purely antiquarian grounds , and according to the tenets of the classification generally accepted , that " we have in South Africa evidence of two periods : a paleolithic and a recent one , which ...
Page 13
... already enunciated beyond , if not including the Azilian , do not bear any distinct connection with the South African ; and even the Solutrian - Magdalenian stage does not seem to exist here in the succession claimed for it in the ...
... already enunciated beyond , if not including the Azilian , do not bear any distinct connection with the South African ; and even the Solutrian - Magdalenian stage does not seem to exist here in the succession claimed for it in the ...
Page 16
... already given , the evidence of the Pretoria implements as eolithic , we are faced with forms of a type and technique so truly palæolithic , and especially lower paleolithic , that doubt as to the identity of shape is no longer possible ...
... already given , the evidence of the Pretoria implements as eolithic , we are faced with forms of a type and technique so truly palæolithic , and especially lower paleolithic , that doubt as to the identity of shape is no longer possible ...
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... already obtained ; paring the butt would probably be the next step , because a comparison with Figs . 74 and 73 shows that the reduction of the butt - end has been effected in the manner suggested before the greatest part of the ...
... already obtained ; paring the butt would probably be the next step , because a comparison with Figs . 74 and 73 shows that the reduction of the butt - end has been effected in the manner suggested before the greatest part of the ...
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... already mentioned ( and I consider , for reasons to be given hereafter , that they are among the most ancient in South Africa ) , no evidence of these instruments has as yet been obtained . Nothing has been found to my knowledge ...
... already mentioned ( and I consider , for reasons to be given hereafter , that they are among the most ancient in South Africa ) , no evidence of these instruments has as yet been obtained . Nothing has been found to my knowledge ...
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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