Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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Page 44
... position might be considered ancient , moderately ancient , or very ancient , exhibits traces of paring on the reverse side , and in that respect these flakes are doubtless Mousterian in shape . But the question naturally arises : why ...
... position might be considered ancient , moderately ancient , or very ancient , exhibits traces of paring on the reverse side , and in that respect these flakes are doubtless Mousterian in shape . But the question naturally arises : why ...
Page 45
... position in which it is met with - indications which are far from being conclusive evidence . I have endeavoured to figure all the types in our Collection . Illustrations of implements of that kind give a better idea than descriptions ...
... position in which it is met with - indications which are far from being conclusive evidence . I have endeavoured to figure all the types in our Collection . Illustrations of implements of that kind give a better idea than descriptions ...
Page 48
... position - a position doubtless more ele- vated than the spot where they were found . That they had gravi- tated there is not a mere assumption , because on the top of the mountain , at the foot of these large granitic bosses , after ...
... position - a position doubtless more ele- vated than the spot where they were found . That they had gravi- tated there is not a mere assumption , because on the top of the mountain , at the foot of these large granitic bosses , after ...
Page 50
... position for their workshop or abode . Was the river that drains the valley nearer than it is now ? The great thickness of the iron - gravel at the Simondium Railway Station , in which some of the implements were found , has , like the ...
... position for their workshop or abode . Was the river that drains the valley nearer than it is now ? The great thickness of the iron - gravel at the Simondium Railway Station , in which some of the implements were found , has , like the ...
Page 51
... position in which they were left or manufactured to a lower level . The heavy , round , butt - end of a partly pared palæolith offers much more resistance to the denuding agent than the flat- tened , almost navicular , tongue - shaped ...
... position in which they were left or manufactured to a lower level . The heavy , round , butt - end of a partly pared palæolith offers much more resistance to the denuding agent than the flat- tened , almost navicular , tongue - shaped ...
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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