Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... doubt is no longer permis- sible , as the evidence I adduce will show . The Second Type . - The second type of stone implements is in some respects more primitive ; occasionally it is of a superior finish , but still primitive . It has ...
... doubt is no longer permis- sible , as the evidence I adduce will show . The Second Type . - The second type of stone implements is in some respects more primitive ; occasionally it is of a superior finish , but still primitive . It has ...
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... doubt about the workmanship of these implements could have ever been entertained , because among them were the best finished examples of a Solutrian type ever found , and of which two more only have been met with since . Willing ...
... doubt about the workmanship of these implements could have ever been entertained , because among them were the best finished examples of a Solutrian type ever found , and of which two more only have been met with since . Willing ...
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... doubt . It is not so certain , however , that the numerous petroglyphs ( rock engravings ) , fairly numerous in South Africa , were executed by them . But of one thing we are sure , and that is that these rock engravings have been ...
... doubt . It is not so certain , however , that the numerous petroglyphs ( rock engravings ) , fairly numerous in South Africa , were executed by them . But of one thing we are sure , and that is that these rock engravings have been ...
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... doubt as to the identity of shape is no longer possible . * Their resemblance to the quartzite implements found in Europe , Algeria , Congo , India , is indeed extreme , and the process of manufacture appears to have been the same . The ...
... doubt as to the identity of shape is no longer possible . * Their resemblance to the quartzite implements found in Europe , Algeria , Congo , India , is indeed extreme , and the process of manufacture appears to have been the same . The ...
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... doubt is not possible . These latter have one or more smooth , flat , or slightly convex facets , the abraded planes of which , when the stone is multi - facetted , never correspond with those of another ( Figs . 80 to 83 , Pl . XI ...
... doubt is not possible . These latter have one or more smooth , flat , or slightly convex facets , the abraded planes of which , when the stone is multi - facetted , never correspond with those of another ( Figs . 80 to 83 , Pl . XI ...
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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