Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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Page 6
... covered again , by the boisterous prevailing winds . They are common near the water - places called here " fonteins , " i.e. , springs , and mostly always near to , or in , depressions where rain - water accumulates in the season : the ...
... covered again , by the boisterous prevailing winds . They are common near the water - places called here " fonteins , " i.e. , springs , and mostly always near to , or in , depressions where rain - water accumulates in the season : the ...
Page 27
... covered by a huge sand - dune , which had been temporarily removed by abnormally strong winds , quite a number of these extremely large detaching hammers plainly bearing marks of the use to which they had been put . They were associated ...
... covered by a huge sand - dune , which had been temporarily removed by abnormally strong winds , quite a number of these extremely large detaching hammers plainly bearing marks of the use to which they had been put . They were associated ...
Page 28
... covered with large bosses and depressions due to the removal of large or moderate - sized fragments by percussion . Fragments of the same rock considerably too large for paring or trimming the somewhat delicate , small - sized tools ...
... covered with large bosses and depressions due to the removal of large or moderate - sized fragments by percussion . Fragments of the same rock considerably too large for paring or trimming the somewhat delicate , small - sized tools ...
Page 54
... covered with chipped boulders of a hard , black shale . The same material caps the top of the hill . These tools are very crudely chipped and badly modelled . Some are of gigantic dimensions . The majority appear very modern , almost as ...
... covered with chipped boulders of a hard , black shale . The same material caps the top of the hill . These tools are very crudely chipped and badly modelled . Some are of gigantic dimensions . The majority appear very modern , almost as ...
Page 55
... covered by a few inches of sand , with the exception , of course , of those washed into ' spruits . ' " The Bushman ' deposit is almost wholly confined to the river- banks . Scattered over the veldt , however , are occasionally flakes ...
... covered by a few inches of sand , with the exception , of course , of those washed into ' spruits . ' " The Bushman ' deposit is almost wholly confined to the river- banks . Scattered over the veldt , however , are occasionally flakes ...
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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