Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... close proximity , owing probably to orographical conditions , such as the neighbourhood of streams or rivers that have persisted in their continuance ; subsequent occupation of some points of vantage has led also to these artefacts ...
... close proximity , owing probably to orographical conditions , such as the neighbourhood of streams or rivers that have persisted in their continuance ; subsequent occupation of some points of vantage has led also to these artefacts ...
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... close to his residence on the Cape Flats , near Cape Town , stones showing plain marks of artificial working . These examples were submitted to experts in England , who pronounced them to be undoubtedly man's handiwork . To the present ...
... close to his residence on the Cape Flats , near Cape Town , stones showing plain marks of artificial working . These examples were submitted to experts in England , who pronounced them to be undoubtedly man's handiwork . To the present ...
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... Close to the part struck there is produced a conchoidal fracture , which gives rise to a " bulb of percussion . " That is to say , one of the faces of the detached part presents at its thicker extremity a convex swelling corresponding ...
... Close to the part struck there is produced a conchoidal fracture , which gives rise to a " bulb of percussion . " That is to say , one of the faces of the detached part presents at its thicker extremity a convex swelling corresponding ...
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... close - grained cherty sandstone , or surface quartzite , and the grains of which , even when not closely set , are cemented together by silicious matter . Some of these outcrops were covered with large bosses and depressions due to the ...
... close - grained cherty sandstone , or surface quartzite , and the grains of which , even when not closely set , are cemented together by silicious matter . Some of these outcrops were covered with large bosses and depressions due to the ...
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... close to , Cape St. Blaize - a locality not far removed from the raised beach alluded to . A point of importance is that none of these knives or scrapers that from their position might be considered ancient , moderately ancient , or ...
... close to , Cape St. Blaize - a locality not far removed from the raised beach alluded to . A point of importance is that none of these knives or scrapers that from their position might be considered ancient , moderately ancient , or ...
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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