Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... trimmed , tongue- or almond - shaped implements , or the smaller and perhaps still more perfectly worked tools which are met with so profusely in South Africa . As will be explained as this paper proceeds , the industrial traces left by ...
... trimmed , tongue- or almond - shaped implements , or the smaller and perhaps still more perfectly worked tools which are met with so profusely in South Africa . As will be explained as this paper proceeds , the industrial traces left by ...
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... trimmed sometimes on one , sometimes on both sides , into cleaving , digging , or smiting artefacts , which , whether found in Europe , Asia , Central America , & c . , bear such an extraordinary resemblance to each other that one is ...
... trimmed sometimes on one , sometimes on both sides , into cleaving , digging , or smiting artefacts , which , whether found in Europe , Asia , Central America , & c . , bear such an extraordinary resemblance to each other that one is ...
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... trimmed on either side and with a carefully worked peduncle , or " tang , " for hafting , and a stone axe with ground edge , all made of local rocks . But before adducing my reasons for believing that this multiplicity of form is ...
... trimmed on either side and with a carefully worked peduncle , or " tang , " for hafting , and a stone axe with ground edge , all made of local rocks . But before adducing my reasons for believing that this multiplicity of form is ...
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... leaf- shaped lance - head worked by careful secondary trimming on either side and of nearly pure Solutrian type ; a " coup de poing " of a finish equal to the best Acheulean . We have a cleaving 6 Annals of the South African Museum .
... leaf- shaped lance - head worked by careful secondary trimming on either side and of nearly pure Solutrian type ; a " coup de poing " of a finish equal to the best Acheulean . We have a cleaving 6 Annals of the South African Museum .
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... trimmed on both faces , and of an amygdaloidal ( almond ) shape . ACHEULEAN . With the Chellean is closely connected the Acheulean , which may be termed a phase of transition . The fauna consists of the animals of the Chellean period ...
... trimmed on both faces , and of an amygdaloidal ( almond ) shape . ACHEULEAN . With the Chellean is closely connected the Acheulean , which may be termed a phase of transition . The fauna consists of the animals of the Chellean period ...
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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