Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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Page 39
... usual flat , flake- form . But the absence or rarity of these lanciform blades , flaking or paring hammers , or of scraper - knives among the worked or partly worked bouchers , wherever the deposits are found on the talus of mountains ...
... usual flat , flake- form . But the absence or rarity of these lanciform blades , flaking or paring hammers , or of scraper - knives among the worked or partly worked bouchers , wherever the deposits are found on the talus of mountains ...
Page 52
... usual Karroo type , a moderately small , lanceo- late , triangular scraper , patinated also , but not as deeply as the boucher itself . The patina was distinctly deeper on the obverse than on the reverse side with its usual conchoidal ...
... usual Karroo type , a moderately small , lanceo- late , triangular scraper , patinated also , but not as deeply as the boucher itself . The patina was distinctly deeper on the obverse than on the reverse side with its usual conchoidal ...
Page 59
... . Two are of the usual worn boucher - type , 100- 115 mm . in length ; the third is a small circular chip 22 mm . at its greatest length . the Vaal River very probably flowed in former times , The Stone Ages of South Africa . 59.
... . Two are of the usual worn boucher - type , 100- 115 mm . in length ; the third is a small circular chip 22 mm . at its greatest length . the Vaal River very probably flowed in former times , The Stone Ages of South Africa . 59.
Page 63
... usual modern type . Mr. Leslie's letter in answer to my questions is very clear on the point- " Now to your questions . ( 1 ) Have you found on the banks of the river the agate or chert - like small implements mixed with the large ones ...
... usual modern type . Mr. Leslie's letter in answer to my questions is very clear on the point- " Now to your questions . ( 1 ) Have you found on the banks of the river the agate or chert - like small implements mixed with the large ones ...
Page 66
... usual Stellenbosch type - a sandstone that , we found later , occurs only some 4 or 5 miles from the spot . Well - nigh at the top ( B in text - figure ) were palæoliths , some jammed into the interstices of the rocks , which are ...
... usual Stellenbosch type - a sandstone that , we found later , occurs only some 4 or 5 miles from the spot . Well - nigh at the top ( B in text - figure ) were palæoliths , some jammed into the interstices of the rocks , which are ...
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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