Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... ornaments of stone and clay , of shells and ostrich egg - shells , bone tools , & c . , and also rock paintings and , possibly , rock gravings . It is , however , doubtful if the latter should not be ascribed to the Palæolithic . These ...
... ornaments of stone and clay , of shells and ostrich egg - shells , bone tools , & c . , and also rock paintings and , possibly , rock gravings . It is , however , doubtful if the latter should not be ascribed to the Palæolithic . These ...
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... ornament , * and teeth were bored for the same purpose ; and how could they have been so treated but by the use of these very drilling tools . The deposits or " stations " where these European “ pygmies ” occur are usually near the sea ...
... ornament , * and teeth were bored for the same purpose ; and how could they have been so treated but by the use of these very drilling tools . The deposits or " stations " where these European “ pygmies ” occur are usually near the sea ...
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... ornament , either bored for suspension . or otherwise , has , as yet , been discovered that can be connected with the stone industry . KNIVES . The knives are very scarce . I know of four examples only , and all have been found in shell ...
... ornament , either bored for suspension . or otherwise , has , as yet , been discovered that can be connected with the stone industry . KNIVES . The knives are very scarce . I know of four examples only , and all have been found in shell ...
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... very useful tool for braying skins , an explanation which is , however , speculative . * Rep . S. Afr . Assoc . Adv . Sc . , 1903 , p . 306 . CHAPTER XI . ORNAMENTS . The records of the Cape The Stone Ages of South Africa . 103.
... very useful tool for braying skins , an explanation which is , however , speculative . * Rep . S. Afr . Assoc . Adv . Sc . , 1903 , p . 306 . CHAPTER XI . ORNAMENTS . The records of the Cape The Stone Ages of South Africa . 103.
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... ornaments , especially those made of copper . Sparrman mentions and figures the ornaments that some Hot- tentots wear : strings of marine shells , which from the illustration appear to be Nerita albicilla , L. , and also a circular ...
... ornaments , especially those made of copper . Sparrman mentions and figures the ornaments that some Hot- tentots wear : strings of marine shells , which from the illustration appear to be Nerita albicilla , L. , and also a circular ...
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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