Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... feet in height , takes the place of its still larger predecessor , Elephas antiquus ; it is associated with the woolly rhinoceros , having two horns over the nose , the larger of the two sometimes 3 feet in length . The Acheulean ...
... feet in height , takes the place of its still larger predecessor , Elephas antiquus ; it is associated with the woolly rhinoceros , having two horns over the nose , the larger of the two sometimes 3 feet in length . The Acheulean ...
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... feet in height . It is hardly probable that he trusted either singly or collectively to his strength alone to attack or repel the fera nature that threatened his existence , or to capture those that were necessary for his suste ...
... feet in height . It is hardly probable that he trusted either singly or collectively to his strength alone to attack or repel the fera nature that threatened his existence , or to capture those that were necessary for his suste ...
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... feet above the level of the river draining the valley , which is some 3 miles away as the crow flies . It was lying among huge bouchers , all showing more disintegration than any I have as yet met with . * This partial * At the time of ...
... feet above the level of the river draining the valley , which is some 3 miles away as the crow flies . It was lying among huge bouchers , all showing more disintegration than any I have as yet met with . * This partial * At the time of ...
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... feet - the depth of the " delving . " I could not continue my investigations at a higher level , as no new ground was put under cultivation that could reveal the extent of the lithic deposit . The importance attaching to this deposit is ...
... feet - the depth of the " delving . " I could not continue my investigations at a higher level , as no new ground was put under cultivation that could reveal the extent of the lithic deposit . The importance attaching to this deposit is ...
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... feet . At a depth of some 9 feet I espied on one of the sides the projecting butt - end of a boucher which proved to be one of the finest I ever obtained . On the surface , exposed by digging or ploughing , and almost in a line with the ...
... feet . At a depth of some 9 feet I espied on one of the sides the projecting butt - end of a boucher which proved to be one of the finest I ever obtained . On the surface , exposed by digging or ploughing , and almost in a line with the ...
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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