Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... 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 criticised the numerous illustra- tions ...
... 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 criticised the numerous illustra- tions ...
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... obtain- ing among the Australian aborigines ; arrows , the cutting or piercing heads of which is obtained by minute chips set in a triangular piece of similar gum - cement , a few arrow - heads with tang , worked on both sides ; and a ...
... obtain- ing among the Australian aborigines ; arrows , the cutting or piercing heads of which is obtained by minute chips set in a triangular piece of similar gum - cement , a few arrow - heads with tang , worked on both sides ; and a ...
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... obtained in Europe . The latter classification is based on stratigraphical and palæonto- logical evidence , and it depends also on certain industries which unfortunately did not extend to South Africa . Classifications are made to be ...
... obtained in Europe . The latter classification is based on stratigraphical and palæonto- logical evidence , and it depends also on certain industries which unfortunately did not extend to South Africa . Classifications are made to be ...
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... obtain his food , and to secure garments as protection from the severity of the climate . This period , divided in two successive ones , is the age pre - eminently of the reindeer , and it leads progressively from the old Quaternary or ...
... obtain his food , and to secure garments as protection from the severity of the climate . This period , divided in two successive ones , is the age pre - eminently of the reindeer , and it leads progressively from the old Quaternary or ...
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... obtained by the fracture of pebbles or boulders than from pieces detached from the outcrop of rock . This opinion is certainly . borne out by the very numerous implements of both the Stellen- bosch and Orange River types that retain ...
... obtained by the fracture of pebbles or boulders than from pieces detached from the outcrop of rock . This opinion is certainly . borne out by the very numerous implements of both the Stellen- bosch and Orange River types that retain ...
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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