Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... 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 . Evolution often stops ...
... 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 . Evolution often stops ...
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... less periodically covered again , by the boisterous prevailing winds . They are common near the water - places called here " fonteins , " i.e. , springs , and mostly always near to , or in , depressions where rain - water accumulates in ...
... less periodically covered again , by the boisterous prevailing winds . They are common near the water - places called here " fonteins , " i.e. , springs , and mostly always near to , or in , depressions where rain - water accumulates in ...
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... less polished ; some again show no sign of having been smoothed either by eolian or water action . But when abraded or partly polished the action is clearly due to the flow of an intermittent river . If one compares these specimens with ...
... less polished ; some again show no sign of having been smoothed either by eolian or water action . But when abraded or partly polished the action is clearly due to the flow of an intermittent river . If one compares these specimens with ...
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... less coarse or sub - crystalline quartzite , of diabasic rock often very deeply pitted and occasionally vesicular , banded jasper , dolerite or aphanite , sometimes , but very seldom , chert ( Districts of Bedford , Alice , East London ...
... less coarse or sub - crystalline quartzite , of diabasic rock often very deeply pitted and occasionally vesicular , banded jasper , dolerite or aphanite , sometimes , but very seldom , chert ( Districts of Bedford , Alice , East London ...
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... less serviceable than Figs . 47 , 53 , and 57 , which have undoubtedly been produced with less skill . The ex- planation is that the cleaving propensity is due , as in the case of the digging - tools , to the preliminary trimming on ...
... less serviceable than Figs . 47 , 53 , and 57 , which have undoubtedly been produced with less skill . The ex- planation is that the cleaving propensity is due , as in the case of the digging - tools , to the preliminary trimming on ...
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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