Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... hand , if the natural texture of the material used allows under any kind of concussion the preliminary fracture that leads to the evolution of the finer artefacts , then , of course , we may dismiss from our mind these important factors ...
... hand , if the natural texture of the material used allows under any kind of concussion the preliminary fracture that leads to the evolution of the finer artefacts , then , of course , we may dismiss from our mind these important factors ...
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... hand - picks , cleaving - stones or axes , 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 ...
... hand - picks , cleaving - stones or axes , 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 ...
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... 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 when made ...
... 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 when made ...
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... hand , the " pygmy " implements , and others with the " bord abattu of the French , cannot be very readily distinguished from the English , French , and Indian implements of the same type , except , of course , by the material of which ...
... hand , the " pygmy " implements , and others with the " bord abattu of the French , cannot be very readily distinguished from the English , French , and Indian implements of the same type , except , of course , by the material of which ...
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... hand- knapping , " are found together with simple , or barbed darts , arrow - heads , some simple , some notched , and others triangularly incised at the base ; bodkins , & c . , made of ivory or bone are common . " " It is at that time ...
... hand- knapping , " are found together with simple , or barbed darts , arrow - heads , some simple , some notched , and others triangularly incised at the base ; bodkins , & c . , made of ivory or bone are common . " " It is at that time ...
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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