Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... original home , because for incalcu- lable time a large part of Africa has been uncovered by the sea . This is , however , a hazardous plea , because the existence of Ter- tiary man has hitherto not been asserted with any likelihood of ...
... original home , because for incalcu- lable time a large part of Africa has been uncovered by the sea . This is , however , a hazardous plea , because the existence of Ter- tiary man has hitherto not been asserted with any likelihood of ...
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... original pebble shape ; they show no distinct secondary trimming except faint traces at the point ; none are rectilinear in profile . Figs . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 20 , 32 represent the best finished tongue - shaped , Stellenbosch - type ...
... original pebble shape ; they show no distinct secondary trimming except faint traces at the point ; none are rectilinear in profile . Figs . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 20 , 32 represent the best finished tongue - shaped , Stellenbosch - type ...
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... original rounded surface of the boulder from which it was made has been retained . It is a very unwieldy tool , and very heavy . Fig . 30 comes from the Charter District of Southern Rhodesia . It is almost a replica of Fig . 29 , and is ...
... original rounded surface of the boulder from which it was made has been retained . It is a very unwieldy tool , and very heavy . Fig . 30 comes from the Charter District of Southern Rhodesia . It is almost a replica of Fig . 29 , and is ...
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South African Museum. of the original surface of the matrix or nucleus has also been retained , as in the Tulbagh example , and although , owing to the composition of the rock of which it is made , it has undoubtedly required more ...
South African Museum. of the original surface of the matrix or nucleus has also been retained , as in the Tulbagh example , and although , owing to the composition of the rock of which it is made , it has undoubtedly required more ...
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... original shape of the nucleus has been retained at the butt , and it is trimmed on both sides . * I have seen another boucher made of the same material but smaller , and unlike any other that I have seen . It is in the shape of a ...
... original shape of the nucleus has been retained at the butt , and it is trimmed on both sides . * I have seen another boucher made of the same material but smaller , and unlike any other that I have seen . It is in the shape of a ...
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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