Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... edge , all made of local rocks . But before adducing my reasons for believing that this multiplicity of form is ascribable to a plurality of races , some extremely ancient , others less so , and others again well - nigh contemporaneous ...
... edge , all made of local rocks . But before adducing my reasons for believing that this multiplicity of form is ascribable to a plurality of races , some extremely ancient , others less so , and others again well - nigh contemporaneous ...
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... edge was broken by a waggon going over it . It is very finely grained and shows a great deal of weathering . The felspar is kaolinised . On comparison with Fig . 32 , which is the reverse of Fig . 3 , one of the best finished quartzite ...
... edge was broken by a waggon going over it . It is very finely grained and shows a great deal of weathering . The felspar is kaolinised . On comparison with Fig . 32 , which is the reverse of Fig . 3 , one of the best finished quartzite ...
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... edge , intended probably for cutting . It is the property of Mr. F. White , of Bulawayo . Large bouchers made of chalcedony seem to be , however , very rare , but some of moderate sizes have been found ; they pertain , though , more to ...
... edge , intended probably for cutting . It is the property of Mr. F. White , of Bulawayo . Large bouchers made of chalcedony seem to be , however , very rare , but some of moderate sizes have been found ; they pertain , though , more to ...
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... edge , both edge or point of which , in nearly all cases , show conspicuous marks of wear . The hand - picks do not , however , imply agricultural pursuits in the sense of crop - growing . Man of the Middle Pleistocene was small , about ...
... edge , both edge or point of which , in nearly all cases , show conspicuous marks of wear . The hand - picks do not , however , imply agricultural pursuits in the sense of crop - growing . Man of the Middle Pleistocene was small , about ...
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... edge - paring , which so clearly imply that a sense of esthetics prevailed over that of mere utility with some at least of the primitive makers . FLAKERS , PARING TOOLS . The two first - mentioned tools are seldom found in South Africa ...
... edge - paring , which so clearly imply that a sense of esthetics prevailed over that of mere utility with some at least of the primitive makers . FLAKERS , PARING TOOLS . The two first - mentioned tools are seldom found in South Africa ...
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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