Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... palæolith , " in honour of Boucher de Perthes , the French savant who was , if not the first discoverer , at least the ... palæoliths , other than the ubiquitous and probably surviving type of knife - scraper , correspond to the " celt ...
... palæolith , " in honour of Boucher de Perthes , the French savant who was , if not the first discoverer , at least the ... palæoliths , other than the ubiquitous and probably surviving type of knife - scraper , correspond to the " celt ...
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... palæoliths are mostly made of banded jasper , brown or yellow , and occasionally white with bluish veins- an extremely hard material which , owing to the banding , splits or flakes into small facets seemingly more readily than quartzite ...
... palæoliths are mostly made of banded jasper , brown or yellow , and occasionally white with bluish veins- an extremely hard material which , owing to the banding , splits or flakes into small facets seemingly more readily than quartzite ...
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... palæoliths , made either of dolerite or diabasic rock , are worn so smooth that some might , on a superficial examination , appear to have been artificially polished ( Figs . 53 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 59 , 60 ) ; the nearly oblong example ...
... palæoliths , made either of dolerite or diabasic rock , are worn so smooth that some might , on a superficial examination , appear to have been artificially polished ( Figs . 53 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 59 , 60 ) ; the nearly oblong example ...
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... palæoliths of Griqua Town , but made of impure , not banded jasper . Some are small chalcedony bouchers chipped on ... palæolith from the Zambesi River described and figured by Mr. Henry Balfour . " " * Granite implements have also been ...
... palæoliths of Griqua Town , but made of impure , not banded jasper . Some are small chalcedony bouchers chipped on ... palæolith from the Zambesi River described and figured by Mr. Henry Balfour . " " * Granite implements have also been ...
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... palæoliths are made from a rounded boulder or large pebble , water - worn or otherwise , it is probable that a boulder of the same size , or perhaps heavier , was hurled against the one which it was intended to split in order to obtain ...
... palæoliths are made from a rounded boulder or large pebble , water - worn or otherwise , it is probable that a boulder of the same size , or perhaps heavier , was hurled against the one which it was intended to split in order to obtain ...
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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