Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... aborigines that have disappeared , leaving behind them , however , these artefacts as a testimony to their former existence . It soon becomes plain , even after a superficial examination , that the making of implements of forms so ...
... aborigines that have disappeared , leaving behind them , however , these artefacts as a testimony to their former existence . It soon becomes plain , even after a superficial examination , that the making of implements of forms so ...
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... aborigines ; arrows , the cutting or piercing heads of which is obtained by minute chips set in a triangular piece of similar gum - cement , a few arrow - heads with tang , worked on both sides ; and a ground axe of neolithic type are ...
... aborigines ; arrows , the cutting or piercing heads of which is obtained by minute chips set in a triangular piece of similar gum - cement , a few arrow - heads with tang , worked on both sides ; and a ground axe of neolithic type are ...
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... Aborigines , & c . , " loc . cit . , vol . xvi . , 1906 . § Péringuey , " On Rock Engravings of Animals and the Human Figure found in South Africa , " Trans . S. Africa , Phil . Soc . , vol . xviii . , 1909 . have had a beginning , that ...
... Aborigines , & c . , " loc . cit . , vol . xvi . , 1906 . § Péringuey , " On Rock Engravings of Animals and the Human Figure found in South Africa , " Trans . S. Africa , Phil . Soc . , vol . xviii . , 1909 . have had a beginning , that ...
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... aborigines — a manner which did also obtain in South Africa , but for smaller tools only , as will be seen hereafter . Yet the thing is not impossible with bouchers of the Mousterian type , one face of which is the result of the ...
... aborigines — a manner which did also obtain in South Africa , but for smaller tools only , as will be seen hereafter . Yet the thing is not impossible with bouchers of the Mousterian type , one face of which is the result of the ...
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... aborigines . Have we here , then , a corroboration of the famous , yet contro- versial , Egyptian Periplus ? Have these splendid points which so very greatly resemble the best specimens from the Fayoum been made on the spot by mariners ...
... aborigines . Have we here , then , a corroboration of the famous , yet contro- versial , Egyptian Periplus ? Have these splendid points which so very greatly resemble the best specimens from the Fayoum been made on the spot by mariners ...
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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