Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... mention of Mr. J. M. Bain , without whose intelligence , liberality , and absolutely gratuitous aid my attempt at discriminating in the intricate questions of the South African Lithic Ages would have been greatly impaired , and the ...
... mention of Mr. J. M. Bain , without whose intelligence , liberality , and absolutely gratuitous aid my attempt at discriminating in the intricate questions of the South African Lithic Ages would have been greatly impaired , and the ...
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... mentioned Karroo forms and those occurring there is in some cases extreme . These palæoliths are mostly made of banded jasper , brown or yellow , and occasionally white with bluish veins- an extremely hard material which , owing to the ...
... mentioned Karroo forms and those occurring there is in some cases extreme . These palæoliths are mostly made of banded jasper , brown or yellow , and occasionally white with bluish veins- an extremely hard material which , owing to the ...
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... mentioned , the facies or general appearance of these two , or perhaps three types is astonishingly alike , as the following examples will prove . Fig . 29 is that of a rough , massive implement made of quartzite , and was found in the ...
... mentioned , the facies or general appearance of these two , or perhaps three types is astonishingly alike , as the following examples will prove . Fig . 29 is that of a rough , massive implement made of quartzite , and was found in the ...
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... mentioned ( and I consider , for reasons to be given hereafter , that they are among the most ancient in South Africa ) , no evidence of these instruments has as yet been obtained . Nothing has been found to my knowledge resembling even ...
... mentioned ( and I consider , for reasons to be given hereafter , that they are among the most ancient in South Africa ) , no evidence of these instruments has as yet been obtained . Nothing has been found to my knowledge resembling even ...
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... mentioned as detaching hammer . The reverse is flat and the fracture clean . The obverse is already pared on the upper side by the repeated blows of the detaching tools , somewhat in the manner claimed for the Mousterian of Europe . On ...
... mentioned as detaching hammer . The reverse is flat and the fracture clean . The obverse is already pared on the upper side by the repeated blows of the detaching tools , somewhat in the manner claimed for the Mousterian of Europe . On ...
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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