Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... extremely ancient , others less so , and others again well - nigh contemporaneous , I must warn the student that it should not be taken for granted that the evolution or transformation of an industry is always on the lines of progress ...
... extremely ancient , others less so , and others again well - nigh contemporaneous , I must warn the student that it should not be taken for granted that the evolution or transformation of an industry is always on the lines of progress ...
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... found at the foot of Port Elizabeth Hill together with extremely water - worn quartzite implements ( Figs . 25 , 26 , 27 , Pl . IV . ) . ments must be dismissed . They are not the precursors The Stone Ages of South Africa . 15.
... found at the foot of Port Elizabeth Hill together with extremely water - worn quartzite implements ( Figs . 25 , 26 , 27 , Pl . IV . ) . ments must be dismissed . They are not the precursors The Stone Ages of South Africa . 15.
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... extremely rare , no matter to what type the implement may belong ( cf. Fig . 24 , Pl . III . ) . I may also state that the specimens figured have not been selected on account of their singularity or finish , and although no two pieces ...
... extremely rare , no matter to what type the implement may belong ( cf. Fig . 24 , Pl . III . ) . I may also state that the specimens figured have not been selected on account of their singularity or finish , and although no two pieces ...
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... extremely pronounced in Figs . 25 and 26 . * I have seen an implement of that type alleged to have been found in Natal . It is in the G. Leith Collection , now in the Pretoria Museum . I know of similar ones from East London , as well ...
... extremely pronounced in Figs . 25 and 26 . * I have seen an implement of that type alleged to have been found in Natal . It is in the G. Leith Collection , now in the Pretoria Museum . I know of similar ones from East London , as well ...
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... extremely primitive . In the best examples the flaking , either through imperfect know- ledge of the craft , possibly also owing to the texture or composition of the material used , is irregular : one of the faces is often hollowed or ...
... extremely primitive . In the best examples the flaking , either through imperfect know- ledge of the craft , possibly also owing to the texture or composition of the material used , is irregular : one of the faces is often hollowed or ...
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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