Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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Page 6
... plainly that their presence there is purely accidental . The material is always a rock of hard texture ; no implement made from a flint nodule has as yet been found , because the material does not exist in South Africa . The hardest ...
... plainly that their presence there is purely accidental . The material is always a rock of hard texture ; no implement made from a flint nodule has as yet been found , because the material does not exist in South Africa . The hardest ...
Page 22
... plainly ostrich egg- shell borers , and if they are made of the same material as that of some of the large bouchers of the Zambesi Valley , it is due to the fact that silicious rock , and perhaps no other exposed one of hard texture ...
... plainly ostrich egg- shell borers , and if they are made of the same material as that of some of the large bouchers of the Zambesi Valley , it is due to the fact that silicious rock , and perhaps no other exposed one of hard texture ...
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... plainly bears marks of usage . Many were the speculations which its shape . and its partly unfinished appearance and heaviness suggested ; but if the workmanship of the fine implement shown in Fig . 20 , Pl . III . , is carefully ...
... plainly bears marks of usage . Many were the speculations which its shape . and its partly unfinished appearance and heaviness suggested ; but if the workmanship of the fine implement shown in Fig . 20 , Pl . III . , is carefully ...
Page 27
... plainly bearing marks of the use to which they had been put . They were associated with river - boulder palæoliths of a most ancient type , as well as with others that had been fashioned from non - rolled pebbles , but of equally ...
... plainly bearing marks of the use to which they had been put . They were associated with river - boulder palæoliths of a most ancient type , as well as with others that had been fashioned from non - rolled pebbles , but of equally ...
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... plainly that it was detached from a rock surface by a very large tool of the style of those mentioned as detaching hammer . The reverse is flat and the fracture clean . The obverse is already pared on the upper side by the repeated ...
... plainly that it was detached from a rock surface by a very large tool of the style of those mentioned as detaching hammer . The reverse is flat and the fracture clean . The obverse is already pared on the upper side by the repeated ...
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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