Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... paintings and , possibly , rock gravings . It is , however , doubtful if the latter should not be ascribed to the Palæolithic . These two types are not often found together , yet they are occa- sionally met with in close proximity ...
... paintings and , possibly , rock gravings . It is , however , doubtful if the latter should not be ascribed to the Palæolithic . These two types are not often found together , yet they are occa- sionally met with in close proximity ...
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... paintings , and it is not out of place to remind the reader that in the gorge at Humansdorp , where the game traps are preserved , there occurs a rock engraving , painted with red ochre.t Let us assume that primitive man originated in ...
... paintings , and it is not out of place to remind the reader that in the gorge at Humansdorp , where the game traps are preserved , there occurs a rock engraving , painted with red ochre.t Let us assume that primitive man originated in ...
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... paintings occur , are the very counterpart in size and shape of quartzite scrapers discovered at the foot of the Paarl Rock in the Cape Colony , which show traces of enormously long exposure . From the examples given it is seen that the ...
... paintings occur , are the very counterpart in size and shape of quartzite scrapers discovered at the foot of the Paarl Rock in the Cape Colony , which show traces of enormously long exposure . From the examples given it is seen that the ...
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... painting in the shape of petroglyphs . The conclusions drawn from the stratigraphical evidence that led to the acceptation of the Aurignacian finds of France as older than the Solutrian , and the latter as having preceded the ...
... painting in the shape of petroglyphs . The conclusions drawn from the stratigraphical evidence that led to the acceptation of the Aurignacian finds of France as older than the Solutrian , and the latter as having preceded the ...
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... paintings are inferior as a rule , but not always , to those found in Southern France or Spain , whilst our rock - gravings are , in many instances , far superior . But comparison of the bone- or stone - implements found in , or near ...
... paintings are inferior as a rule , but not always , to those found in Southern France or Spain , whilst our rock - gravings are , in many instances , far superior . But comparison of the bone- or stone - implements found in , or near ...
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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