Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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Page 33
... bush paintings , and it is not out of place to remind the reader that in the gorge at Humansdorp , where the game traps are preserved , there occurs a rock engraving , painted with red ochre.f Let us assume that primitive man originated ...
... bush paintings , and it is not out of place to remind the reader that in the gorge at Humansdorp , where the game traps are preserved , there occurs a rock engraving , painted with red ochre.f Let us assume that primitive man originated ...
Page 70
... bush ) consisted of from 4 to 5 feet of stiff clay soil followed by about a foot of travelled gravel , that is rolled gravel having a close resemblance to shot of different sizes . A little above the gravel line a large number of stone ...
... bush ) consisted of from 4 to 5 feet of stiff clay soil followed by about a foot of travelled gravel , that is rolled gravel having a close resemblance to shot of different sizes . A little above the gravel line a large number of stone ...
Page 90
... Bush people in recent time . And therefore this highly finished tool dates from yesterday . Its finish contrasts singularly with the rough scrapers in Figs . 133 , 134 , 135 , 136 , or 138. Yet the culture of the people is the same as ...
... Bush people in recent time . And therefore this highly finished tool dates from yesterday . Its finish contrasts singularly with the rough scrapers in Figs . 133 , 134 , 135 , 136 , or 138. Yet the culture of the people is the same as ...
Page 103
... Bush people . The hacking necessitated for that reduction has been plainly made by a stone implement , and the weapon , owing to its weight and sharp edge , is not at all a contemptible one . The example was found at great depth in a ...
... Bush people . The hacking necessitated for that reduction has been plainly made by a stone implement , and the weapon , owing to its weight and sharp edge , is not at all a contemptible one . The example was found at great depth in a ...
Page 105
... bush - girl . From the Record We have now two such ornaments . The second is shorter than the one figured . Three were found , while digging or ploughing a field and a garden respectively , in the Stellenbosch District , Cape Colony ...
... bush - girl . From the Record We have now two such ornaments . The second is shorter than the one figured . Three were found , while digging or ploughing a field and a garden respectively , in the Stellenbosch District , Cape Colony ...
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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 similar Simondium skeletons skulls smooth Solutrian South African specimens steatopygia Stellenbosch stone implements Strand Looper Strandloopers surface thick traces Vaal River water-worn West