Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... fragments due to accidental fracturing of rocks . The proposition that their evolution took place in Africa , and perhaps South Africa , seems to me quite plausible . Were it possible to postulate for man ( whether anthropomorphous ape ...
... fragments due to accidental fracturing of rocks . The proposition that their evolution took place in Africa , and perhaps South Africa , seems to me quite plausible . Were it possible to postulate for man ( whether anthropomorphous ape ...
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... fragments artificially detached from rocks . Either might have been heated and flakes split off by the application of cold water . The sudden contraction would not , however , produce the concave fracture of the matrix which invariably ...
... fragments artificially detached from rocks . Either might have been heated and flakes split off by the application of cold water . The sudden contraction would not , however , produce the concave fracture of the matrix which invariably ...
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... fragment has been detached from a river boulder in the manner shown . The face of the detached part is nearly even , the fracture of the left side is irregular ; in the side view ( Fig . 69 ) , the convex part of the fracture ...
... fragment has been detached from a river boulder in the manner shown . The face of the detached part is nearly even , the fracture of the left side is irregular ; in the side view ( Fig . 69 ) , the convex part of the fracture ...
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... fragment or splinter of rock were not required for the purpose . But together with these roughly fabricated artefacts ... fragments detached from large rock masses . To obtain the material required , correspondingly large hammers , which ...
... fragment or splinter of rock were not required for the purpose . But together with these roughly fabricated artefacts ... fragments detached from large rock masses . To obtain the material required , correspondingly large hammers , which ...
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... fragment represented in Pl . XI . , Fig . 84. Made of the same crystalline quartzite as the detaching hammers , a ... Fragments of the same rock considerably too large for paring or trimming the somewhat delicate , small - sized tools ...
... fragment represented in Pl . XI . , Fig . 84. Made of the same crystalline quartzite as the detaching hammers , a ... Fragments of the same rock considerably too large for paring or trimming the somewhat delicate , small - sized tools ...
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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