Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... quartzite , dolerite , lydianite , or shale indurated by the in- trusion of dolerite , surface quartzite of various textures , cherty sandstone , Dwyka chert , banded jasper , diabase , agate , and chalce- dony , white quartz either ...
... quartzite , dolerite , lydianite , or shale indurated by the in- trusion of dolerite , surface quartzite of various textures , cherty sandstone , Dwyka chert , banded jasper , diabase , agate , and chalce- dony , white quartz either ...
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... quartzite one will , during the same time , merely acquire a patina , or polish ; a chert or banded jasper tool will remain almost as fresh as when made , while a diabasic one will become deeply pitted or smoothed under similar ...
... quartzite one will , during the same time , merely acquire a patina , or polish ; a chert or banded jasper tool will remain almost as fresh as when made , while a diabasic one will become deeply pitted or smoothed under similar ...
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... quartzite , at one blow after or before the outer face has been shaped into the requisite manner ; the reverse side shows well - nigh invariably the convex node called " bulb of percussion . " The maximum size is about 6 inches long ...
... quartzite , at one blow after or before the outer face has been shaped into the requisite manner ; the reverse side shows well - nigh invariably the convex node called " bulb of percussion . " The maximum size is about 6 inches long ...
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... was found at the foot of Port Elizabeth Hill together with extremely water - worn quartzite implements ( Figs . 25 , 26 , 27 , Pl . IV . ) . ments must be dismissed . They are not the precursors The Stone Ages of South Africa . 15.
... was found at the foot of Port Elizabeth Hill together with extremely water - worn quartzite implements ( Figs . 25 , 26 , 27 , Pl . IV . ) . ments must be dismissed . They are not the precursors The Stone Ages of South Africa . 15.
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... quartzite implements found in Europe , Algeria , Congo , India , is indeed extreme , and the process of manufacture appears to have been the same . The late E. T. Hamy was quite justified in stating of a quartzite cleaving , or hand ...
... quartzite implements found in Europe , Algeria , Congo , India , is indeed extreme , and the process of manufacture appears to have been the same . The late E. T. Hamy was quite justified in stating of a quartzite cleaving , or hand ...
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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