Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... seen hereafter , that the small , rude implements used here until a few years ago were not utilised con- temporaneously with the large , roughly or finely trimmed , tongue- or almond - shaped implements , or the smaller and perhaps ...
... seen hereafter , that the small , rude implements used here until a few years ago were not utilised con- temporaneously with the large , roughly or finely trimmed , tongue- or almond - shaped implements , or the smaller and perhaps ...
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... seen subsequently , and yet so primitive in appearance that one can excuse , yet not agree with , those antiquarians who , re- quiring a beginning to everything , have postulated that thorny subject an " eolithic " age preceding or ...
... seen subsequently , and yet so primitive in appearance that one can excuse , yet not agree with , those antiquarians who , re- quiring a beginning to everything , have postulated that thorny subject an " eolithic " age preceding or ...
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... seen ( Figs . 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 29 ) ; it is extremely pronounced in Figs . 25 and 26 . * I have seen an implement of that type alleged to have been found in Natal . It is in the G. Leith Collection , now in the Pretoria Museum . I know ...
... seen ( Figs . 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 29 ) ; it is extremely pronounced in Figs . 25 and 26 . * I have seen an implement of that type alleged to have been found in Natal . It is in the G. Leith Collection , now in the Pretoria Museum . I know ...
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... seen another boucher made of the same material but smaller , and unlike any other that I have seen . It is in the shape of a transverse wedge , blunt at the top and tapering thence to a fairly sharp edge , intended probably for cutting ...
... seen another boucher made of the same material but smaller , and unlike any other that I have seen . It is in the shape of a transverse wedge , blunt at the top and tapering thence to a fairly sharp edge , intended probably for cutting ...
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... seen in Figs . 7 , 8 , 12 , 15 , 21 is , however , of such poor description that I am probably justified in postulating that paring tools other than any fragment or splinter of rock were not required for the purpose . But together with ...
... seen in Figs . 7 , 8 , 12 , 15 , 21 is , however , of such poor description that I am probably justified in postulating that paring tools other than any fragment or splinter of rock were not required for the purpose . But together with ...
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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