Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1982 - Natural history |
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Page 84
... shell wall , almost invariably from the inside of the shell and regardless of whether it was a gastropod or bivalve . This may well account for the high number of broken Donax serra valves , since the holes punched in these shells are ...
... shell wall , almost invariably from the inside of the shell and regardless of whether it was a gastropod or bivalve . This may well account for the high number of broken Donax serra valves , since the holes punched in these shells are ...
Page 91
... shell fragments Apart from three pieces in layers 16 and 18 , decorated shell fragments are restricted to the upper layers , from layer 9 up . At least twenty - five different types of decoration could be identified , and some of these ...
... shell fragments Apart from three pieces in layers 16 and 18 , decorated shell fragments are restricted to the upper layers , from layer 9 up . At least twenty - five different types of decoration could be identified , and some of these ...
Page 92
... shell ' buttons ' ( Fig . 35G - L ) . Plain fragments Unmodified fragments of shell are not distributed throughout the layers in proportion to the frequencies of beads . Layers 19-16 , 9-7 , and 5-3 all have mass ADs of more than 500 g ...
... shell ' buttons ' ( Fig . 35G - L ) . Plain fragments Unmodified fragments of shell are not distributed throughout the layers in proportion to the frequencies of beads . Layers 19-16 , 9-7 , and 5-3 all have mass ADs of more than 500 g ...
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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