Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... digging , or smiting artefacts , which , whether found in Europe , Asia , Central America , & c . , bear such an extraordinary resemblance to each other that one is forced to the conclusion that the type could not have been invented in ...
... digging , or smiting artefacts , which , whether found in Europe , Asia , Central America , & c . , bear such an extraordinary resemblance to each other that one is forced to the conclusion that the type could not have been invented in ...
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... digging- stones or hand - picks , cleaving - stones or axes , flakes having served as knives , saws , burins , piercers , scrapers , or perforated disks for weight - making , orbicular stones for hand - throwing , or perhaps slinging ...
... digging- stones or hand - picks , cleaving - stones or axes , flakes having served as knives , saws , burins , piercers , scrapers , or perforated disks for weight - making , orbicular stones for hand - throwing , or perhaps slinging ...
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... digging , or smiting tools of the Chellean - Mousterian periods , as generally accepted . The evi- dence afforded by scrapers , knives , missiles , burins or bores , pottery or other implements of domestic use cannot be taken into ...
... digging , or smiting tools of the Chellean - Mousterian periods , as generally accepted . The evi- dence afforded by scrapers , knives , missiles , burins or bores , pottery or other implements of domestic use cannot be taken into ...
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... digging , but as cleavers they would certainly prove less serviceable than Figs . 47 , 53 , and 57 , which have undoubtedly been produced with less skill . The ex- planation is that the cleaving propensity is due , as in the case of the ...
... digging , but as cleavers they would certainly prove less serviceable than Figs . 47 , 53 , and 57 , which have undoubtedly been produced with less skill . The ex- planation is that the cleaving propensity is due , as in the case of the ...
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... digging tools . Figs . 5 and 6 , Pl . I. , represent hand - picks in which the rounded part of the nucleus has been retained as best suited for hold- ing in the hand . It is wonderful how , even in an inexperienced hand , adaptation to ...
... digging tools . Figs . 5 and 6 , Pl . I. , represent hand - picks in which the rounded part of the nucleus has been retained as best suited for hold- ing in the hand . It is wonderful how , even in an inexperienced hand , adaptation to ...
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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