Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1982 - Natural history |
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... phase 2/3 . The first borers ( drills ) were recovered from layer 13 . As in phase 1 , there are very few bone artefacts in the layers of phase 2 , and ' fish gorges ' are restricted to layers 15-13 . The first shell ornaments , simple ...
... phase 2/3 . The first borers ( drills ) were recovered from layer 13 . As in phase 1 , there are very few bone artefacts in the layers of phase 2 , and ' fish gorges ' are restricted to layers 15-13 . The first shell ornaments , simple ...
Page 179
... phase 2/3 is seen as transitional between phases 2 and 3. While in many respects continuing the pattern of phase 2 it presages that of phase 3 and in general suggests an increase in the intensity of the occupation of the cave as well as ...
... phase 2/3 is seen as transitional between phases 2 and 3. While in many respects continuing the pattern of phase 2 it presages that of phase 3 and in general suggests an increase in the intensity of the occupation of the cave as well as ...
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... phase , with Turbo sarmaticus the most common species . Fish frequencies , although still low , also increase in phase 3 and the site maximum is reached in layer 5 . Phase 3 suggests the highest intensity of occupation of the cave of ...
... phase , with Turbo sarmaticus the most common species . Fish frequencies , although still low , also increase in phase 3 and the site maximum is reached in layer 5 . Phase 3 suggests the highest intensity of occupation of the cave of ...
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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