Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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Page 18
... rounded original pebble shape ; they show no distinct secondary trimming except faint traces at the point ; none are rectilinear in profile . Figs . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 20 , 32 represent the best finished tongue - shaped , Stellenbosch ...
... rounded original pebble shape ; they show no distinct secondary trimming except faint traces at the point ; none are rectilinear in profile . Figs . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 20 , 32 represent the best finished tongue - shaped , Stellenbosch ...
Page 19
... rounded either by water or other natural causes . These implements are rude , and often extremely primitive . In the best examples the flaking , either through imperfect know- ledge of the craft , possibly also owing to the texture or ...
... rounded either by water or other natural causes . These implements are rude , and often extremely primitive . In the best examples the flaking , either through imperfect know- ledge of the craft , possibly also owing to the texture or ...
Page 20
... rounded surface of the boulder from which it was made has been retained . It is a very unwieldy tool , and very heavy . Fig . 30 comes from the Charter District of Southern Rhodesia . It is almost a replica of Fig . 29 , and is made of ...
... rounded surface of the boulder from which it was made has been retained . It is a very unwieldy tool , and very heavy . Fig . 30 comes from the Charter District of Southern Rhodesia . It is almost a replica of Fig . 29 , and is made of ...
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... rounded boulders or large pebbles , and fragments artificially detached from rocks . Either might have been heated and flakes split off by the application of cold water . The sudden contraction would not , however , produce the concave ...
... rounded boulders or large pebbles , and fragments artificially detached from rocks . Either might have been heated and flakes split off by the application of cold water . The sudden contraction would not , however , produce the concave ...
Page 24
... rounded or water - worn boulders of the Simondium station , " indi- cates that the ultimate shape of the boucher depended mostly on the manner of the fracture . Thus , in Fig . 68 , Pl . X. , a fragment has been detached from a river ...
... rounded or water - worn boulders of the Simondium station , " indi- cates that the ultimate shape of the boucher depended mostly on the manner of the fracture . Thus , in Fig . 68 , Pl . X. , a fragment has been detached from a river ...
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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