Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1976 - Natural history |
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... surface of shale chips and a few unrolled artefacts , one probably a hand- axe . Both terraces and this surface were covered by dune - sand , red passing into yellow in depth , to an altitude of +82 m , with a line of quartzite pebbles ...
... surface of shale chips and a few unrolled artefacts , one probably a hand- axe . Both terraces and this surface were covered by dune - sand , red passing into yellow in depth , to an altitude of +82 m , with a line of quartzite pebbles ...
Page 23
The calcified sand which here separates the Tugela from the Pietersburg surface is thicker than the upper red sand found elsewhere between the two surfaces ; but the contemporaneity of each surface at different places is guaran- teed by ...
The calcified sand which here separates the Tugela from the Pietersburg surface is thicker than the upper red sand found elsewhere between the two surfaces ; but the contemporaneity of each surface at different places is guaran- teed by ...
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... surface sample ( 59,6 % ) , which as noted possibly reflects a very wet year . Although the Compositae are also more abundant in these deposits , it is believed that the grass : Compositae ratio used by Van Zinderen Bakker ( 1957 ) and ...
... surface sample ( 59,6 % ) , which as noted possibly reflects a very wet year . Although the Compositae are also more abundant in these deposits , it is believed that the grass : Compositae ratio used by Van Zinderen Bakker ( 1957 ) and ...
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aeolianite beach beads Bergville Bhaca Bomvana bone bowl branded Breyer-Brandwijk 1962 calabash calcrete campestris Cape Nguni Cape Town carved Cave climatic club cm long coastal Cordon decorated deposits Doke & Vilakazi Drakensberg Drakensberg area dune Durban Essexvale estuaries eustatic fossil geol glacial gourd gravel Groblersdal handle headrests Hlubi hole Holocene hominid horn information was obtained Ingwavuma interglacial ivory Kirby Krige Kropf ladle Libode locality Mahlabatini marine melanotis Mfengu milk calabash milk-pail mortar Mpondo Mpondomise Msinga area museum specimens musical bow NASKO Natal Natal Nguni Ndzundza necklet Nguni Nongoma penis-sheaths Pietersburg pipes plages Pleistocene Potgietersrus Quaternary Raphicerus recorded red sand River samples sea-level sediments shaft shorelines snuff-boxes snuff-spoons South African Museum southern Africa Southern Natal species specimens seen spoon St Lucia stick stools surface Swazi Terms Thembu Tjolotjo transgression Tugela upper Warmelo Watt & Breyer-Brandwijk Weiss wood wooden Xesibe Xhosa Zebediela Zulu Zululand