Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... antiquity . A hand - pick of dolerite will be weathered to a stage of unrecognition , while a quartzite one will , during the same time , merely acquire a patina , or polish ; a chert or banded jasper tool will remain almost as fresh as ...
... antiquity . A hand - pick of dolerite will be weathered to a stage of unrecognition , while a quartzite one will , during the same time , merely acquire a patina , or polish ; a chert or banded jasper tool will remain almost as fresh as ...
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South African Museum. of similar tools for which a degree or character of great antiquity . may justly be claimed . One thing , however , we may consider as established . It was by means of flaking or paring tools of the kind here ...
South African Museum. of similar tools for which a degree or character of great antiquity . may justly be claimed . One thing , however , we may consider as established . It was by means of flaking or paring tools of the kind here ...
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... antiquity , have gravitated , following the course of hill denudation and valley formation . And this occurrence is repeated wherever the Stellenbosch - type quartzite boucher is found . Look for it in iron - gravel or below it , when ...
... antiquity , have gravitated , following the course of hill denudation and valley formation . And this occurrence is repeated wherever the Stellenbosch - type quartzite boucher is found . Look for it in iron - gravel or below it , when ...
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... antiquity as for the deposits of the Pyrénées , of Spain or of India , where , as here , the smaller artefacts in the shape of scraper - knives are equally rare . BEUKESFONTEIN DEPOSIT . Very primitive - looking are implements of a ...
... antiquity as for the deposits of the Pyrénées , of Spain or of India , where , as here , the smaller artefacts in the shape of scraper - knives are equally rare . BEUKESFONTEIN DEPOSIT . Very primitive - looking are implements of a ...
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... antiquity before being subjected to the fluviatile attrition . Messrs . J. P. Johnson and R. B. Young , in a paper read before the Geological Society of South Africa , state that " all along the * " The Relation of the Ancient Deposits ...
... antiquity before being subjected to the fluviatile attrition . Messrs . J. P. Johnson and R. B. Young , in a paper read before the Geological Society of South Africa , state that " all along the * " The Relation of the Ancient Deposits ...
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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