Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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Page 27
... removed by abnormally strong winds , quite a number of these extremely large detaching hammers plainly bearing marks of the use to which they had been put . They were associated with river - boulder palæoliths of a most ancient type ...
... removed by abnormally strong winds , quite a number of these extremely large detaching hammers plainly bearing marks of the use to which they had been put . They were associated with river - boulder palæoliths of a most ancient type ...
Page 28
... removal of large or moderate - sized fragments by percussion . Fragments of the same rock considerably too large for paring or trimming the somewhat delicate , small - sized tools found there in abundance were not uncommon in the ...
... removal of large or moderate - sized fragments by percussion . Fragments of the same rock considerably too large for paring or trimming the somewhat delicate , small - sized tools found there in abundance were not uncommon in the ...
Page 39
... removal of the flakes , owing to their lighter weight , occasioned by the same denuding agents to which , however , the very much greater size and bulk of the bouchers , cores , or detaching hammers offered a greater resist- ance - a ...
... removal of the flakes , owing to their lighter weight , occasioned by the same denuding agents to which , however , the very much greater size and bulk of the bouchers , cores , or detaching hammers offered a greater resist- ance - a ...
Page 44
... removed from the raised beach alluded to . A point of importance is that none of these knives or scrapers that from their position might be considered ancient , moderately ancient , or very ancient , exhibits traces of paring on the ...
... removed from the raised beach alluded to . A point of importance is that none of these knives or scrapers that from their position might be considered ancient , moderately ancient , or very ancient , exhibits traces of paring on the ...
Page 50
... removed . I found there in the vertical wall , from which the clay was detached by pickaxe , two superposed layers of fractured , water - worn boulders , spalls , nuclei , finished bouchers , such as Figs . 2 and 4 of Pl . I. , and a ...
... removed . I found there in the vertical wall , from which the clay was detached by pickaxe , two superposed layers of fractured , water - worn boulders , spalls , nuclei , finished bouchers , such as Figs . 2 and 4 of Pl . I. , and a ...
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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