Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1982 - Natural history |
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... shellfish represented in terms of ' meatmass ' rather than simple numerical frequency . Not surprisingly , the middens are consequently primarily characterized as Haliotis or Turbo middens , or a combination of , or variations on ...
... shellfish represented in terms of ' meatmass ' rather than simple numerical frequency . Not surprisingly , the middens are consequently primarily characterized as Haliotis or Turbo middens , or a combination of , or variations on ...
Page 167
... shellfish popula- tions through human predation . Buchanan's table 6 shows that the mean lengths of Patella granatina and P. granularis from archaeological sites are 25-36 per cent smaller than those of modern samples . This has led ...
... shellfish popula- tions through human predation . Buchanan's table 6 shows that the mean lengths of Patella granatina and P. granularis from archaeological sites are 25-36 per cent smaller than those of modern samples . This has led ...
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... shellfish from Elands Bay Cave ( Parkington 1979 , table 5 ) are sparse , but indicate that while Patella spp . make up the bulk of the shellfish in most of the lower layers there was a marked increase in the frequency of Choromytilus ...
... shellfish from Elands Bay Cave ( Parkington 1979 , table 5 ) are sparse , but indicate that while Patella spp . make up the bulk of the shellfish in most of the lower layers there was a marked increase in the frequency of Choromytilus ...
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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