Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... 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 also recorded . 66 The evolution in the manufacture of these tools took probably a ...
... 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 also recorded . 66 The evolution in the manufacture of these tools took probably a ...
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... chips of the silicious rock found near the Victoria Falls . In no case is the thicker part of the chip dented in the horseshoe fashion claimed for the Kent eoliths ( cf. Cuts 3 , 6 , 7 , 8 of Fig . 119 , Pl . XV . ) . * For the above ...
... chips of the silicious rock found near the Victoria Falls . In no case is the thicker part of the chip dented in the horseshoe fashion claimed for the Kent eoliths ( cf. Cuts 3 , 6 , 7 , 8 of Fig . 119 , Pl . XV . ) . * For the above ...
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... chips of jasper , the material of which it is made . But in the Prieska , Kenhardt , Hay Districts ( Cape Colony ) , imple- ments of quartzite or diabasic rock are found of a shape and finish rivalling those of Figs . 36 , 37 , 39 , & c ...
... chips of jasper , the material of which it is made . But in the Prieska , Kenhardt , Hay Districts ( Cape Colony ) , imple- ments of quartzite or diabasic rock are found of a shape and finish rivalling those of Figs . 36 , 37 , 39 , & c ...
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... chips were detached , and not hammers ; were it otherwise the edges would be abraded , which is not the case . Quite lately there were discovered at Fishhook , Cape Colony , on the slope of a hill usually covered by a huge sand - dune ...
... chips were detached , and not hammers ; were it otherwise the edges would be abraded , which is not the case . Quite lately there were discovered at Fishhook , Cape Colony , on the slope of a hill usually covered by a huge sand - dune ...
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... chips that resulted from the paring of the same - the by - product , so to say , of this lithic industry ; a by - product which is very rarely associated both in Europe , and in many cases here also , with the finished or unfinished ...
... chips that resulted from the paring of the same - the by - product , so to say , of this lithic industry ; a by - product which is very rarely associated both in Europe , and in many cases here also , with the finished or unfinished ...
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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