Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... produce of the same , clearly assimilates it to that prevailing in Southern Europe , from the Pyrénées eastward and southwards . This paper is not an attempt to try and solve problems of great consequence for that section of the science ...
... produce of the same , clearly assimilates it to that prevailing in Southern Europe , from the Pyrénées eastward and southwards . This paper is not an attempt to try and solve problems of great consequence for that section of the science ...
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... producing glyptics ; of this there is no doubt . It is not so certain , however , that the numerous petroglyphs ( rock engravings ) , fairly numerous in South Africa , were executed by them . But of one thing we are sure , and that is ...
... producing glyptics ; of this there is no doubt . It is not so certain , however , that the numerous petroglyphs ( rock engravings ) , fairly numerous in South Africa , were executed by them . But of one thing we are sure , and that is ...
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... produced a conchoidal fracture , which gives rise to a " bulb of percussion . " That is to say , one of the faces of the detached part presents at its thicker extremity a convex swelling corresponding to a concave cavity in the matrix ...
... produced a conchoidal fracture , which gives rise to a " bulb of percussion . " That is to say , one of the faces of the detached part presents at its thicker extremity a convex swelling corresponding to a concave cavity in the matrix ...
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... produced rival the best Acheulean flints in finish . ( Figs . 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 44 , 48 , 49 , & c . ) . They do not usually attain the great size and heavy weight of many of the Stellenbosch- type examples , yet the ...
... produced rival the best Acheulean flints in finish . ( Figs . 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 44 , 48 , 49 , & c . ) . They do not usually attain the great size and heavy weight of many of the Stellenbosch- type examples , yet the ...
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... produce the desired . object with the material of which they are made . The nucleus is of two sorts : water - worn or naturally rounded boulders or large pebbles , and fragments artificially detached from rocks . Either might have been ...
... produce the desired . object with the material of which they are made . The nucleus is of two sorts : water - worn or naturally rounded boulders or large pebbles , and fragments artificially detached from rocks . Either might have been ...
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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