Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... First Type . This type is one considered to be comparable with the oldest division in Europe , which is based there on very good palæontological evidence , but not always indisputably backed , however , by geological proofs . Tools of ...
... First Type . This type is one considered to be comparable with the oldest division in Europe , which is based there on very good palæontological evidence , but not always indisputably backed , however , by geological proofs . Tools of ...
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... first discoverer , at least the first interpreter , of the occurrence of implements of that type which he found in the gravels of the river Somme . It is highly desirable that this term should be adopted , because the other appellations ...
... first discoverer , at least the first interpreter , of the occurrence of implements of that type which he found in the gravels of the river Somme . It is highly desirable that this term should be adopted , because the other appellations ...
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... first line with which we connect it is gradually abandoned for a less complex but not necessarily It is a well - accepted fact that primitive people always settled near running waters in the valleys . ineffective one , which , through ...
... first line with which we connect it is gradually abandoned for a less complex but not necessarily It is a well - accepted fact that primitive people always settled near running waters in the valleys . ineffective one , which , through ...
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... first , because geology and palæontology fail him in affording precise indications of an old period from which deductions other than speculative might be drawn ; secondly , because the Stone Age is not yet an age of the past , or if so ...
... first , because geology and palæontology fail him in affording precise indications of an old period from which deductions other than speculative might be drawn ; secondly , because the Stone Age is not yet an age of the past , or if so ...
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South African Museum. have had a beginning , that these flints were the first attempt of man at trimming and working stone for his requirements . This discovery , followed by similar ones in Europe , led many Antiquarians to adopt the ...
South African Museum. have had a beginning , that these flints were the first attempt of man at trimming and working stone for his requirements . This discovery , followed by similar ones in Europe , led many Antiquarians to adopt the ...
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aborigines Acheulean Africa ancient animals antiquity appear arrows artefacts Aurignacian awls Barkly West beads bouchers boulders Bush Bushman Cape Colony Cape Flats Cape Town CHAPTER Chellean chips Coldstream cave CRADOCK culture deposit diabase digging discovered dolerite edge Europe evidence examples feet figured finished flakes fragments gravel Griqua groove hafted holes Hottentots Hyæna jasper Kaffir knife-scraper kwès lithic littoral Magdalenian makers manufacture material middens mortars Mossel Bay Mousterian Mousterian type mullers Museum negroid neolithic Newman collo Nooitgedacht nuclei obtained ornaments ostrich egg-shell Paarl paintings palæoliths paring pebble pieces plainly pots pottery pounders Prieska primitive probably proved pygmies quartzite race relics remains represented resemblance Rhodesia rock rock-shelters rounded sand sand-dunes sandstone scraper-knives scrapers secondary trimming shape shell-mounds shells side Simondium skeletons skulls smooth Solutrian South African specimens steatopygia Stellenbosch stone implements Strand Looper Strandloopers surface thick traces Vaal River water-worn West