Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... sides , into cleaving , digging , or smiting artefacts , which , whether found in Europe , Asia , Central America , & c . , bear such an extraordinary resemblance to each other that one is forced to the conclusion that the type could ...
... sides , into cleaving , digging , or smiting artefacts , which , whether found in Europe , Asia , Central America , & c . , bear such an extraordinary resemblance to each other that one is forced to the conclusion that the type could ...
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... side and with a carefully worked peduncle , or " tang , " for hafting , and a stone axe with ground edge , all made of local rocks . But before adducing my reasons for believing that this multiplicity of form is ascribable to a ...
... side and with a carefully worked peduncle , or " tang , " for hafting , and a stone axe with ground edge , all made of local rocks . But before adducing my reasons for believing that this multiplicity of form is ascribable to a ...
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... lance - head worked by careful secondary trimming on either side and of nearly pure Solutrian type ; a " coup de poing " of a finish . equal to the best Acheulean . We have a cleaving 6 Annals of the South African Museum .
... lance - head worked by careful secondary trimming on either side and of nearly pure Solutrian type ; a " coup de poing " of a finish . equal to the best Acheulean . We have a cleaving 6 Annals of the South African Museum .
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... sides ; and a ground axe of neolithic type are also recorded . The evolution in the manufacture of these tools took probably a very long time in South Africa , as elsewhere . I have already ex- pressed my belief , based on purely ...
... sides ; and a ground axe of neolithic type are also recorded . The evolution in the manufacture of these tools took probably a very long time in South Africa , as elsewhere . I have already ex- pressed my belief , based on purely ...
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... side were prevalent stone implements trimmed on both faces , and of an amygdaloidal ( almond ) shape . ACHEULEAN . - With the Chellean is closely connected the Acheulean , which may be termed a phase of transition . The fauna consists ...
... side were prevalent stone implements trimmed on both faces , and of an amygdaloidal ( almond ) shape . ACHEULEAN . - With the Chellean is closely connected the Acheulean , which may be termed a phase of transition . The fauna consists ...
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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