Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... bone tools , & c . , and also rock paintings and , possibly , rock gravings . It is , however , doubtful if the latter should not be ascribed to the Palæolithic . These two types are not often found together , yet they are occa ...
... bone tools , & c . , and also rock paintings and , possibly , rock gravings . It is , however , doubtful if the latter should not be ascribed to the Palæolithic . These two types are not often found together , yet they are occa ...
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... bone skewers or bodkins , or by reducing to shape the bone shaft of arrows , whether of huge size or ridiculously small , they all abound in South Africa from west to east , from south to north . When they are of a type that might be ...
... bone skewers or bodkins , or by reducing to shape the bone shaft of arrows , whether of huge size or ridiculously small , they all abound in South Africa from west to east , from south to north . When they are of a type that might be ...
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... bone , horn occur side by side with stone implements of different shapes , possibly pre - Solutrian . Flint lance - heads admirably worked on each side , arrow - heads with peduncles , or " tangs , " exhibiting a wonderful progress in ...
... bone , horn occur side by side with stone implements of different shapes , possibly pre - Solutrian . Flint lance - heads admirably worked on each side , arrow - heads with peduncles , or " tangs , " exhibiting a wonderful progress in ...
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... bone or wood could not produce the desired object with the material of which they are made . The nucleus is of two sorts : water - worn or naturally rounded boulders or large pebbles , and fragments artificially detached from rocks ...
... bone or wood could not produce the desired object with the material of which they are made . The nucleus is of two sorts : water - worn or naturally rounded boulders or large pebbles , and fragments artificially detached from rocks ...
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... bone- and a stone - culture commingled . But this evidence , for reasons which will be duly explained , I include in the South African neolithic . This digression into the neolithic period is here necessary for the proper comprehension ...
... bone- and a stone - culture commingled . But this evidence , for reasons which will be duly explained , I include in the South African neolithic . This digression into the neolithic period is here necessary for the proper comprehension ...
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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