Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... called a narrative , of information obtained in South Africa , classified wrongly or rightly according to the tenets obtaining now . It is the embodiment of some thirty years ' research , and if the explanations can be challenged or ...
... called a narrative , of information obtained in South Africa , classified wrongly or rightly according to the tenets obtaining now . It is the embodiment of some thirty years ' research , and if the explanations can be challenged or ...
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... called here " fonteins , " i.e. , springs , and mostly always near to , or in , depressions where rain - water accumulates in the season : the " vleis , " or " " pans of South Africa . " " When of a more ancient type , Chellean ...
... called here " fonteins , " i.e. , springs , and mostly always near to , or in , depressions where rain - water accumulates in the season : the " vleis , " or " " pans of South Africa . " " When of a more ancient type , Chellean ...
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... called the Chelleo- Mousterian . The reasons for these divisions are as follows : - - CHELLEAN . - During this period Europe was a warm country with a mild and damp climate . The fauna is characterised by the pre- sence of the ...
... called the Chelleo- Mousterian . The reasons for these divisions are as follows : - - CHELLEAN . - During this period Europe was a warm country with a mild and damp climate . The fauna is characterised by the pre- sence of the ...
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... called Bushman paintings completely into the shade . Yet this man's predecessor , the late Mousterian , is dolichocephalic with an index of 75 , and a breadth height of 62.5 , that is to say with measurements corresponding with a lower ...
... called Bushman paintings completely into the shade . Yet this man's predecessor , the late Mousterian , is dolichocephalic with an index of 75 , and a breadth height of 62.5 , that is to say with measurements corresponding with a lower ...
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... called implements with " trimmed edges , " " double- , ” " crescent - shaped , " " hollow - end , " " horse - shoe " scrapers the most ancient attempts of man at the manufacture of tools . I may add that with the human remains of the ...
... called implements with " trimmed edges , " " double- , ” " crescent - shaped , " " hollow - end , " " horse - shoe " scrapers the most ancient attempts of man at the manufacture of tools . I may add that with the human remains of the ...
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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