Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1982 - Natural history |
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... quartz accounts for 67,2 per cent of the total of blade cores and 87,5 per cent of those in layer 19 alone , not one utilized quartz blade was found . Scaled pieces More commonly known as pièces esquillées , these are artefacts with ...
... quartz accounts for 67,2 per cent of the total of blade cores and 87,5 per cent of those in layer 19 alone , not one utilized quartz blade was found . Scaled pieces More commonly known as pièces esquillées , these are artefacts with ...
Page 58
... quartz segments in layer 1 are on average wider than those of layer 4 and about the same width as those of layer 5 . In shape , i.e. length : width ratio , there is a trend from a more or less equidimensional shape in layer 10 to a ...
... quartz segments in layer 1 are on average wider than those of layer 4 and about the same width as those of layer 5 . In shape , i.e. length : width ratio , there is a trend from a more or less equidimensional shape in layer 10 to a ...
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... quartz grit , mostly in the 0,5-1,0 mm size range but also including larger pieces . Some of the sherds include shale or siltstone fragments , but these occur in low frequency in a matrix of quartz grit and the sherds cannot therefore ...
... quartz grit , mostly in the 0,5-1,0 mm size range but also including larger pieces . Some of the sherds include shale or siltstone fragments , but these occur in low frequency in a matrix of quartz grit and the sherds cannot therefore ...
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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