Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... beads and ornaments of stone and clay , of shells and ostrich egg - shells , bone tools , & c . , and also rock paintings and , possibly , rock gravings . It is , however , doubtful if the latter should not be ascribed to the ...
... beads and ornaments of stone and clay , of shells and ostrich egg - shells , bone tools , & c . , and also rock paintings and , possibly , rock gravings . It is , however , doubtful if the latter should not be ascribed to the ...
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... beads , of the Cape Flats ( Figs . 110 , 112 , No. 1 , 2 , 3 , 5 , Pl . XIV . ) . The bouchers truncated in this manner thus give the impression that they broke at their weakest point while being used as picking or digging tools . Figs ...
... beads , of the Cape Flats ( Figs . 110 , 112 , No. 1 , 2 , 3 , 5 , Pl . XIV . ) . The bouchers truncated in this manner thus give the impression that they broke at their weakest point while being used as picking or digging tools . Figs ...
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... bead ( Pl . XVI . , Cut 3 of Fig . 186 ) ; also a small cube of iron pyrites . At the entrance of the shelter there are still traces of bush paintings , and it is not out of place to remind the reader that in the gorge at Humansdorp ...
... bead ( Pl . XVI . , Cut 3 of Fig . 186 ) ; also a small cube of iron pyrites . At the entrance of the shelter there are still traces of bush paintings , and it is not out of place to remind the reader that in the gorge at Humansdorp ...
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... beads parers , perhaps also for heading arrows . But the character of the Table Mountain sandstone , or other quartzite rock of which these pseudo nuclei consist , precludes the possibility of these splinters having been used for that ...
... beads parers , perhaps also for heading arrows . But the character of the Table Mountain sandstone , or other quartzite rock of which these pseudo nuclei consist , precludes the possibility of these splinters having been used for that ...
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... beads , two brass buttons , & c .; and it is difficult indeed to come to any conclusion other than the occupiers of the midden were responsible for these bones accumulating in that spot . Neither large bouchers nor large scraper ...
... beads , two brass buttons , & c .; and it is difficult indeed to come to any conclusion other than the occupiers of the midden were responsible for these bones accumulating in that spot . Neither large bouchers nor large scraper ...
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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