Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... Flats , near Cape Town , stones showing plain marks of artificial working . These examples were submitted to experts in England , who pronounced them to be undoubtedly man's handiwork . To the present generation it seems almost ...
... Flats , near Cape Town , stones showing plain marks of artificial working . These examples were submitted to experts in England , who pronounced them to be undoubtedly man's handiwork . To the present generation it seems almost ...
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... flat , or pointed stones , either rolled by water , detached , or sharpened by natural or accidental agencies ; that afterwards he attempted to improve on them , or made them more suited to a requisite purpose , appears to us now very ...
... flat , or pointed stones , either rolled by water , detached , or sharpened by natural or accidental agencies ; that afterwards he attempted to improve on them , or made them more suited to a requisite purpose , appears to us now very ...
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... flat , and resembling greatly , in fact identical with , the Zambesi silicious implements ; but most interesting were three made of white quartz from vein , and respectively 133 , 95 , and 80 mm . long by 80 , 68 , and 66 mm . broad ...
... flat , and resembling greatly , in fact identical with , the Zambesi silicious implements ; but most interesting were three made of white quartz from vein , and respectively 133 , 95 , and 80 mm . long by 80 , 68 , and 66 mm . broad ...
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... flat part on the right side of Fig . 20a is still indicated in Fig . 20 , & c .; and the same thing happens on the reverse of both . The trimming of Fig . 20a into the shape of Fig . 20 would , however , cause a considerable diminution ...
... flat part on the right side of Fig . 20a is still indicated in Fig . 20 , & c .; and the same thing happens on the reverse of both . The trimming of Fig . 20a into the shape of Fig . 20 would , however , cause a considerable diminution ...
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... flat and the fracture clean . The obverse is already pared on the upper side by the repeated blows of the detaching tools , somewhat in the manner claimed for the Mousterian of Europe . On the Cape Flats , in the neighbourhood of Cape ...
... flat and the fracture clean . The obverse is already pared on the upper side by the repeated blows of the detaching tools , somewhat in the manner claimed for the Mousterian of Europe . On the Cape Flats , in the neighbourhood of Cape ...
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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