Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1982 - Natural history |
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South African Museum. TABLE 12 Marine shell : inventory of ornaments and edge - damaged artefacts . Layer Perforated whole shells Glycimeris queketti . Nassa kraussiana Tricolia kochi Conus sp ( p ) . Cypraea sp ( p ) . Bullia spp ...
South African Museum. TABLE 12 Marine shell : inventory of ornaments and edge - damaged artefacts . Layer Perforated whole shells Glycimeris queketti . Nassa kraussiana Tricolia kochi Conus sp ( p ) . Cypraea sp ( p ) . Bullia spp ...
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... marine shell representing food debris cannot simply be dismissed as coincidental . The low frequencies of shell ornaments in the layers below layer 9 are , however , also consistent with an interpretation based on a lower intensity of ...
... marine shell representing food debris cannot simply be dismissed as coincidental . The low frequencies of shell ornaments in the layers below layer 9 are , however , also consistent with an interpretation based on a lower intensity of ...
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... shell ornaments , simple perforated shells , occur in layer 16 but phase 2 shares with phase 1 a paucity of marine shell , mostly Donax serra as well as very low ADs for beads and other artefacts of ostrich egg - shell . Layers 17 and ...
... shell ornaments , simple perforated shells , occur in layer 16 but phase 2 shares with phase 1 a paucity of marine shell , mostly Donax serra as well as very low ADs for beads and other artefacts of ostrich egg - shell . Layers 17 and ...
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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