Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1982 - Natural history |
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Page 56
... segments made on blades are more common ( 52-64 % of the layer totals ) . A problem in the classification of segments is their tendency to grade into backed flakes . There was little agreement among those who worked on or examined the ...
... segments made on blades are more common ( 52-64 % of the layer totals ) . A problem in the classification of segments is their tendency to grade into backed flakes . There was little agreement among those who worked on or examined the ...
Page 58
... segments from layer 8 , while the quartz segments from this layer indicate the trend that continues in the upper layers , towards a wider form that reaches its maximum in layer 6. Layer 5 has a somewhat anomalous reversion to a longer ...
... segments from layer 8 , while the quartz segments from this layer indicate the trend that continues in the upper layers , towards a wider form that reaches its maximum in layer 6. Layer 5 has a somewhat anomalous reversion to a longer ...
Page 146
... Segments from Wilton were relatively fewer than from BNK 1 , accounting for only 4,0 per cent of the tool category and 32,6 per cent of the backed tool class ( J. Deacon 1972 , table 1 , including broken segments ) . Segments account ...
... Segments from Wilton were relatively fewer than from BNK 1 , accounting for only 4,0 per cent of the tool category and 32,6 per cent of the backed tool class ( J. Deacon 1972 , table 1 , including broken segments ) . Segments account ...
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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