Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1982 - Natural history |
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... Turbo sarmaticus . They consist mostly of the nacreous inner shell , the periostracum having fallen away or been removed , and in every case the perforations have been drilled from the inner surface of the shell . The three not made of ...
... Turbo sarmaticus . They consist mostly of the nacreous inner shell , the periostracum having fallen away or been removed , and in every case the perforations have been drilled from the inner surface of the shell . The three not made of ...
Page 109
... Turbo sarmaticus and nearer the size of T. cidaris so that the increase in the frequency of Oxystele sinensis , measured against the decrease in that of Turbo sarmaticus , cannot be seen simply as the replacement of one food resource by ...
... Turbo sarmaticus and nearer the size of T. cidaris so that the increase in the frequency of Oxystele sinensis , measured against the decrease in that of Turbo sarmaticus , cannot be seen simply as the replacement of one food resource by ...
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... Turbo middens , or a combination of , or variations on , these . Haliotis midae and Turbo sarmaticus are among the largest shellfish to be found on the South African coast and have an average flesh mass 4-60 times greater than that of ...
... Turbo middens , or a combination of , or variations on , these . Haliotis midae and Turbo sarmaticus are among the largest shellfish to be found on the South African coast and have an average flesh mass 4-60 times greater than that of ...
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absent absent adzes Albany archaeol artefacts backed flakes backed scrapers blade cores BNK 1 layer BNK 1 sample bone Boomplaas bovids Bredasdorp Buffelskloof Burial Byneskranskop Calcaneum Cape Town capensis cent cm Fig coastal plain common in layers cranial Damaliscus Deacon distal Donax serra Elands Bay Elands Bay Cave ERSITY excavated volume fauna fish fragments fynbos Goodwin granatina H. J. Deacon Holocene increase indicated individuals Kelders Klein large medium layer 12 layer 9 layer total lower layers Mandible marine shell mean length Melkhoutboom Nelson Bay Cave Nguni notch Oakhurst Oreotragus Parkington Patella phase post-cranial skeleton present proximal quartz quartzite radiocarbon dates range Raphicerus raw material relatively remains retouched artefact category Robberg SAN DIEGO Schweitzer 1979 scrapers segments sequence shellfish sherds Sideroxylon inerme silcrete skull small medium Smithfield South African Museum stone artefacts sub-unit suggests surface tibia UNIV unmodified upper layers utilization vertebrae Wilton