Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... flakes having served as knives , saws , burins , piercers , scrapers , or perforated disks for weight - making , orbicular stones for hand - throwing , or perhaps slinging , smoothed pounders , mullers , querns , or mortars , stones ...
... flakes having served as knives , saws , burins , piercers , scrapers , or perforated disks for weight - making , orbicular stones for hand - throwing , or perhaps slinging , smoothed pounders , mullers , querns , or mortars , stones ...
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... flakes . Beside the skeleton were found , in addition to the flint implements of the Mousterian type , some of the Acheulean , among them a splendidly worked " hand- wedge . " t A human jaw has been also lately discovered to which an ...
... flakes . Beside the skeleton were found , in addition to the flint implements of the Mousterian type , some of the Acheulean , among them a splendidly worked " hand- wedge . " t A human jaw has been also lately discovered to which an ...
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... flakes into small facets seemingly more readily than quartzite . The implements thus produced rival the best Acheulean flints in finish . ( Figs . 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 44 , 48 , 49 , & c . ) . They do not usually attain ...
... flakes into small facets seemingly more readily than quartzite . The implements thus produced rival the best Acheulean flints in finish . ( Figs . 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 44 , 48 , 49 , & c . ) . They do not usually attain ...
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... flakes split off by the application of cold water . The sudden contraction would not , however , produce the concave fracture of the matrix which invariably corresponds with the convex side of the detached part ( Fig . 69 , Pl . X ...
... flakes split off by the application of cold water . The sudden contraction would not , however , produce the concave fracture of the matrix which invariably corresponds with the convex side of the detached part ( Fig . 69 , Pl . X ...
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... flake are very noticeable . This fact does away with the rock - heating and cold - water - throwing hypothesis . So much , then , for the preliminary fracture . Let us now try to realise what the ultimate shape of this implement would ...
... flake are very noticeable . This fact does away with the rock - heating and cold - water - throwing hypothesis . So much , then , for the preliminary fracture . Let us now try to realise what the ultimate shape of this implement would ...
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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