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Page 39
... But they would ultimately reach either a flat terrace which greatly impeded their downward course , as at Bosman's Crossing , or a pot - hole , as seems to have been the case at Nooitgedacht ; and thus The Stone Ages of South Africa . 39.
... But they would ultimately reach either a flat terrace which greatly impeded their downward course , as at Bosman's Crossing , or a pot - hole , as seems to have been the case at Nooitgedacht ; and thus The Stone Ages of South Africa . 39.
Page 58
... hole . " They must , therefore , have been brought down with alluvium , rom higher levels , from river - terraces . We shall see what evidence is obtainable on that point ; but one must not forget that specimens found in the gravels of ...
... hole . " They must , therefore , have been brought down with alluvium , rom higher levels , from river - terraces . We shall see what evidence is obtainable on that point ; but one must not forget that specimens found in the gravels of ...
Page 61
... holes , are extremely common , and have given rise to the belief there that when- ever Bushmen had , for fear of attack or for other motives , to abandon the springs round which they lived , they would throw all their domestic ...
... holes , are extremely common , and have given rise to the belief there that when- ever Bushmen had , for fear of attack or for other motives , to abandon the springs round which they lived , they would throw all their domestic ...
Page 93
... holes in the tiny beads of ostrich egg - shell which are represented in Fig . 146 , and were found together with the borers . I purposely term them borers or drills instead of punchers , because the perforation is executed from both ...
... holes in the tiny beads of ostrich egg - shell which are represented in Fig . 146 , and were found together with the borers . I purposely term them borers or drills instead of punchers , because the perforation is executed from both ...
Page 98
... hole of the ! kwè , several of which were found in the necropolis where this boring tool was discovered . Cuts 6 and 7 of Fig . 193 might have served equally well as arrow points and as awls . I know of one similar. 98 Annals of the ...
... hole of the ! kwè , several of which were found in the necropolis where this boring tool was discovered . Cuts 6 and 7 of Fig . 193 might have served equally well as arrow points and as awls . I know of one similar. 98 Annals of 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