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Page 53
... backed scrapers are backed flakes that were jettisoned when their utility was exhausted . In view of the variability observed in the BNK 1 sample , this interpretation seems plausible . There seems , however , not enough of the ...
... backed scrapers are backed flakes that were jettisoned when their utility was exhausted . In view of the variability observed in the BNK 1 sample , this interpretation seems plausible . There seems , however , not enough of the ...
Page 64
... backed scrapers . In the BNK 1 sample backed scrapers outnumber backed flakes by about 2 : 1 and there is a lack of intermediate forms - heavily utilized backed flakes - that would be expected if Sampson's suggestion were correct ...
... backed scrapers . In the BNK 1 sample backed scrapers outnumber backed flakes by about 2 : 1 and there is a lack of intermediate forms - heavily utilized backed flakes - that would be expected if Sampson's suggestion were correct ...
Page 147
... backed pieces , though they are listed separately in the inventories in his Appendix 3. Segments are numerically most common at the two ' lacustrine ' sites , Uithoek and Verlore . Five of the other eight sites have ' formal tool ...
... backed pieces , though they are listed separately in the inventories in his Appendix 3. Segments are numerically most common at the two ' lacustrine ' sites , Uithoek and Verlore . Five of the other eight sites have ' formal tool ...
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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