Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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Page 24
... makers , satisfied that the stones could be of service at that stage , gave them merely a preliminary paring until they had either the time , or had acquired the skill necessary for transforming them into that tongue- or amygdaloidal ...
... makers , satisfied that the stones could be of service at that stage , gave them merely a preliminary paring until they had either the time , or had acquired the skill necessary for transforming them into that tongue- or amygdaloidal ...
Page 25
... maker would be satisfied with the ultimate finish of the implement into the characteristic shape of Figs . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 16 , 17 , & c . Only large boulders would be selected for The Stone Ages of South Africa . 25.
... maker would be satisfied with the ultimate finish of the implement into the characteristic shape of Figs . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 16 , 17 , & c . Only large boulders would be selected for The Stone Ages of South Africa . 25.
Page 31
... maker wanted ; this being obtained , he left untrimmed the remainder of the nucleus from which he fashioned it . This boucher weighs 3 lbs . In the same locality where I found it , I discovered several examples having the same peculiar ...
... maker wanted ; this being obtained , he left untrimmed the remainder of the nucleus from which he fashioned it . This boucher weighs 3 lbs . In the same locality where I found it , I discovered several examples having the same peculiar ...
Page 32
... makers of these palæoliths fashioned at the same time two kinds of bouchers : a pick more or less sharply pointed at ... maker of these South African bouchers , which are almost identical with the European , is , as I really believe ...
... makers of these palæoliths fashioned at the same time two kinds of bouchers : a pick more or less sharply pointed at ... maker of these South African bouchers , which are almost identical with the European , is , as I really believe ...
Page 35
... makers . FLAKERS , PARING TOOLS . The two first - mentioned tools are seldom found in South Africa with the completed objects . Finishing tools they may be called where the Chellean- or Acheulean - type bouchers are concerned ...
... makers . FLAKERS , PARING TOOLS . The two first - mentioned tools are seldom found in South Africa with the completed objects . Finishing tools they may be called where the Chellean- or Acheulean - type bouchers are concerned ...
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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