Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... ancient origin ancient in a geological sense - it is certainly to Africa that one would turn to find his original home , because for incalcu- lable time a large part of Africa has been uncovered by the sea . This is , however , a ...
... ancient origin ancient in a geological sense - it is certainly to Africa that one would turn to find his original home , because for incalcu- lable time a large part of Africa has been uncovered by the sea . This is , however , a ...
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... ancient , others less so , and others again well - nigh contemporaneous , I must warn the student that it should not be taken for granted that the evolution or transformation of an industry is always on the lines of progress . Evolution ...
... ancient , others less so , and others again well - nigh contemporaneous , I must warn the student that it should not be taken for granted that the evolution or transformation of an industry is always on the lines of progress . Evolution ...
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... ancient types , on the floor of huge sand - dunes by the sea - coast , when these are exposed and bared , to be no less periodically covered again , by the boisterous prevailing winds . They are common near the water - places called ...
... ancient types , on the floor of huge sand - dunes by the sea - coast , when these are exposed and bared , to be no less periodically covered again , by the boisterous prevailing winds . They are common near the water - places called ...
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... ancient race had peopled Africa at the palæolithic stage . One or more races have supervened , possibly absorbed the former , and perhaps replaced it . Unfortunately , neither geology nor palæontology has been able to give us , so far ...
... ancient race had peopled Africa at the palæolithic stage . One or more races have supervened , possibly absorbed the former , and perhaps replaced it . Unfortunately , neither geology nor palæontology has been able to give us , so far ...
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... ancient Quaternary . Whether they are justified or not for the South African implements , the general terms will prove useful ; but whether these divisions as now accepted will prove provisional , in view of the later discoveries of ...
... ancient Quaternary . Whether they are justified or not for the South African implements , the general terms will prove useful ; but whether these divisions as now accepted will prove provisional , in view of the later discoveries of ...
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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