Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1982 - Natural history |
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Page 62
... flakes or blades with their ends backed obliquely to the length of the piece to produce a trapezoidal shape ( Fig . 23A - M ) . They differ from the sub - class of obliquely backed pieces ( see below ) in that the latter have only one end ...
... flakes or blades with their ends backed obliquely to the length of the piece to produce a trapezoidal shape ( Fig . 23A - M ) . They differ from the sub - class of obliquely backed pieces ( see below ) in that the latter have only one end ...
Page 64
... backed flakes , by the time their utility has been exhausted , may take the form of 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 , by the time their utility has been exhausted , may take the form of 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 ...
Page 147
... backed pieces , though they are listed separately in the inventories in his Appendix 3. Segments are numerically ... flakes in the Die Kelders assemblage were included in the class of ' other backed tools ' , of which there were only six ...
... backed pieces , though they are listed separately in the inventories in his Appendix 3. Segments are numerically ... flakes in the Die Kelders assemblage were included in the class of ' other backed tools ' , of which there were only six ...
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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