Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... - shaped lance - head worked by careful secondary trimming on either side and of nearly pure Solutrian type ; a " coup de poing " of a finish . equal to the best Acheulean . We have a cleaving 6 Annals of the South African Museum .
... - shaped lance - head worked by careful secondary trimming on either side and of nearly pure Solutrian type ; a " coup de poing " of a finish . equal to the best Acheulean . We have a cleaving 6 Annals of the South African Museum .
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... nearly oblong example ( Fig . 43 ) from Calvinia in the Cape Colony is quite smooth ; but in Figs . 53 and 61 , the latter from Prieska , a faint contour of the chipping is retained , showing thus that the smoothness is not due to an ...
... nearly oblong example ( Fig . 43 ) from Calvinia in the Cape Colony is quite smooth ; but in Figs . 53 and 61 , the latter from Prieska , a faint contour of the chipping is retained , showing thus that the smoothness is not due to an ...
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... nearly 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 ...
... nearly 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 ...
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... nearly even , the fracture of the left side is irregular ; in the side view ( Fig . 69 ) , the convex part of the fracture corresponds with , or is akin to , the concave part of Fig . 72. On the right side of Fig . 69 the marks of blows ...
... nearly even , the fracture of the left side is irregular ; in the side view ( Fig . 69 ) , the convex part of the fracture corresponds with , or is akin to , the concave part of Fig . 72. On the right side of Fig . 69 the marks of blows ...
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... . ) and size ( 33 cm . long by nearly 16 broad ) , it has been used as a digging instrument . Fig . 10 is especially instructive ; no longer amygdaloidal- or tongue - shaped , it is plainly 30 Annals of the South African Museum .
... . ) and size ( 33 cm . long by nearly 16 broad ) , it has been used as a digging instrument . Fig . 10 is especially instructive ; no longer amygdaloidal- or tongue - shaped , it is plainly 30 Annals of the South African Museum .
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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