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... marine shell ornaments for about the last 10 000 years , it is not until layer 9 , about 6 000 years ago , that they become common and increase in sophistica- tion . The possibility that the more fragile pendants might not have survived ...
... marine shell ornaments for about the last 10 000 years , it is not until layer 9 , about 6 000 years ago , that they become common and increase in sophistica- tion . The possibility that the more fragile pendants might not have survived ...
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... marine shell and Oxystele sinensis is more common than Turbo sarmaticus which , however , remains the dominant species in terms of flesh mass . Shellfish and fish frequencies decline in layers 2 and 1 and in layer 1 there is a marked ...
... marine shell and Oxystele sinensis is more common than Turbo sarmaticus which , however , remains the dominant species in terms of flesh mass . Shellfish and fish frequencies decline in layers 2 and 1 and in layer 1 there is a marked ...
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... Marine Biology Department , South African Museum ( marine biological information ) ; Mr D. Halkett , University of Cape Town ( artefact analyses and most of the technical drawings ) ; Dr Q. B. Hendey , Cenozoic Palaeontology Department ...
... Marine Biology Department , South African Museum ( marine biological information ) ; Mr D. Halkett , University of Cape Town ( artefact analyses and most of the technical drawings ) ; Dr Q. B. Hendey , Cenozoic Palaeontology Department ...
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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