Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... primitive ; occasionally it is of a superior finish , but still primitive . It has lasted until quite lately — a few years back , as a matter of fact ; it has also probably replaced the former lithic industry . It may be termed South ...
... primitive ; occasionally it is of a superior finish , but still primitive . It has lasted until quite lately — a few years back , as a matter of fact ; it has also probably replaced the former lithic industry . It may be termed South ...
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... primitive civilisation , be they digging- stones or hand - picks , cleaving - stones or axes , flakes having served as knives , saws , burins , piercers , scrapers , or perforated disks for weight - making , orbicular stones for hand ...
... primitive civilisation , be they digging- stones or hand - picks , cleaving - stones or axes , flakes having served as knives , saws , burins , piercers , scrapers , or perforated disks for weight - making , orbicular stones for hand ...
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... primitive in appearance that one can excuse , yet not agree with , those antiquarians who , re- quiring a beginning to everything , have postulated that thorny subject an " eolithic " age preceding or accompanying the " Strepyan . " Nor ...
... primitive in appearance that one can excuse , yet not agree with , those antiquarians who , re- quiring a beginning to everything , have postulated that thorny subject an " eolithic " age preceding or accompanying the " Strepyan . " Nor ...
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... primitive this middle pleistocene man may seem if his physical characters only are taken into consideration , yet he buries his dead with care . Of the skeleton found in the classic grotto of " Le Moustier , " it is said : " The posture ...
... primitive this middle pleistocene man may seem if his physical characters only are taken into consideration , yet he buries his dead with care . Of the skeleton found in the classic grotto of " Le Moustier , " it is said : " The posture ...
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... Primitive man made use of round , flat , or pointed stones , either rolled by water , detached , or sharpened by natural or accidental agencies ; that afterwards he attempted to improve on them , or made them more suited to a requisite ...
... Primitive man made use of round , flat , or pointed stones , either rolled by water , detached , or sharpened by natural or accidental agencies ; that afterwards he attempted to improve on them , or made them more suited to a requisite ...
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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