Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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Page 68
... midden containing the usual domestic appliances of flakes and chips , querns and pot- sherds , and among them a javelin - head of the advanced type , but * Since this account was written bouchers of the same paleolithic type as those ...
... midden containing the usual domestic appliances of flakes and chips , querns and pot- sherds , and among them a javelin - head of the advanced type , but * Since this account was written bouchers of the same paleolithic type as those ...
Page 69
... midden is indubitable . The evidence afforded by the presence of this midden may and probably does account for the presence of these high - type flakes , as well as for that of the mortars and pounders , such middens never being without ...
... midden is indubitable . The evidence afforded by the presence of this midden may and probably does account for the presence of these high - type flakes , as well as for that of the mortars and pounders , such middens never being without ...
Page 71
... midden or shell - mound type , and as I have endeavoured to show in another chapter , it is not in a midden , always void of the Chellean or Acheulean as well as Mous- terian bouchers , that we can expect to find a possible clue to the ...
... midden or shell - mound type , and as I have endeavoured to show in another chapter , it is not in a midden , always void of the Chellean or Acheulean as well as Mous- terian bouchers , that we can expect to find a possible clue to the ...
Page 72
... midden exists there lying upon the shale , the latter comes to about a foot from the surface . Anything im- perishable left lying about would surely soon sink through that shallow soil . It would be good camping ground for the Strand ...
... midden exists there lying upon the shale , the latter comes to about a foot from the surface . Anything im- perishable left lying about would surely soon sink through that shallow soil . It would be good camping ground for the Strand ...
Page 77
... Midden in proximity to the water : mullers and small scrapers , borers or drills and ostrich - egg - shell beads , two brass buttons , & c .; and it is difficult indeed to come to any conclusion other than the occupiers of the midden ...
... Midden in proximity to the water : mullers and small scrapers , borers or drills and ostrich - egg - shell beads , two brass buttons , & c .; and it is difficult indeed to come to any conclusion other than the occupiers of the midden ...
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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