Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1982 - Natural history |
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... layer 12 ( 19,5 % of the layer total ) to layer 6 ( 3,1 % ) then increase sharply from layer 5 ( 14,1 % ) to layer 3 , in which the frequency ( 47,0 % ) is almost equal to that of silcrete ( 50,0 % ) . Lower frequencies of quartz occur in ...
... layer 12 ( 19,5 % of the layer total ) to layer 6 ( 3,1 % ) then increase sharply from layer 5 ( 14,1 % ) to layer 3 , in which the frequency ( 47,0 % ) is almost equal to that of silcrete ( 50,0 % ) . Lower frequencies of quartz occur in ...
Page 74
... 12 , as indicated by the difference of about 2 000 years between the dates ... layer 14 upwards silcrete can be seen to play an increas- ingly important ... layer 15 if it is preferred to consider notched flakes as utilized rather than ...
... 12 , as indicated by the difference of about 2 000 years between the dates ... layer 14 upwards silcrete can be seen to play an increas- ingly important ... layer 15 if it is preferred to consider notched flakes as utilized rather than ...
Page 178
... layer 17 but not in layers 16-13 , and there are no backed blades in any of ... 12 and 11 a predominance of the large medium size class , with the very ... layer 16 and of borers ( drills ) in layer 13 as well as the beginning ( ? ) of a ...
... layer 17 but not in layers 16-13 , and there are no backed blades in any of ... 12 and 11 a predominance of the large medium size class , with the very ... layer 16 and of borers ( drills ) in layer 13 as well as the beginning ( ? ) of a ...
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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