Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... perforated disk or orb ; we have also pottery of a type unknown elsewhere , beads and ornaments of stone and clay , of shells and ostrich egg - shells , bone tools , & c . , and also rock paintings and , possibly , rock gravings . It is ...
... perforated disk or orb ; we have also pottery of a type unknown elsewhere , beads and ornaments of stone and clay , of shells and ostrich egg - shells , bone tools , & c . , and also rock paintings and , possibly , rock gravings . It is ...
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... perforated disks for weight - making , orbicular stones for hand - throwing , or perhaps slinging , smoothed pounders , mullers , querns , or mortars , stones grooved by sharpening bone skewers or bodkins , or by reducing to shape the ...
... perforated disks for weight - making , orbicular stones for hand - throwing , or perhaps slinging , smoothed pounders , mullers , querns , or mortars , stones grooved by sharpening bone skewers or bodkins , or by reducing to shape the ...
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... perforated in the centre and called " ! kwè " ( Figs . 152 to 160 , Pls . XX . - XXI . ) . Doubtless these rounded pebbles ( Figs . 80 , 81 , 82 , 83 , Pl . XI . ) owe their shape wholly or in part to physical agents , such as the ...
... perforated in the centre and called " ! kwè " ( Figs . 152 to 160 , Pls . XX . - XXI . ) . Doubtless these rounded pebbles ( Figs . 80 , 81 , 82 , 83 , Pl . XI . ) owe their shape wholly or in part to physical agents , such as the ...
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... perforated and vermiculated by sand action in a very singular manner . Here and Ax FIG . 7 . B there also we found the small Cape Flat type of flakes and pot- sherds . More numerous than the large implements , there occurred at that ...
... perforated and vermiculated by sand action in a very singular manner . Here and Ax FIG . 7 . B there also we found the small Cape Flat type of flakes and pot- sherds . More numerous than the large implements , there occurred at that ...
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... perforated stones , and potsherds , i.e. , in many instances the usual domestic appliances of shell - mounds along our coasts . I may state , however , that the scraper - knife flakes , long or of moderate size , found there , are ...
... perforated stones , and potsherds , i.e. , in many instances the usual domestic appliances of shell - mounds along our coasts . I may state , however , that the scraper - knife flakes , long or of moderate size , found there , are ...
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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