Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... natural texture of the material used allows under any kind of concussion the preliminary fracture that leads to the evolution of the finer artefacts , then , of course , we may dismiss from our mind these important factors - immigration ...
... natural texture of the material used allows under any kind of concussion the preliminary fracture that leads to the evolution of the finer artefacts , then , of course , we may dismiss from our mind these important factors - immigration ...
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... naturally in calcareous formations , or under hanging rocks . The fera naturæ multiply . Man's mental powers are taxed to their utmost to resist his natural enemies , maybe by brute force , but much more likely by craft , in order to ...
... naturally in calcareous formations , or under hanging rocks . The fera naturæ multiply . Man's mental powers are taxed to their utmost to resist his natural enemies , maybe by brute force , but much more likely by craft , in order to ...
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... natural or accidental agencies ; that afterwards he attempted to improve on them , or made them more suited to a requisite purpose , appears to us now very natural . This hypothesis is , moreover , borne out by the progress made in the ...
... natural or accidental agencies ; that afterwards he attempted to improve on them , or made them more suited to a requisite purpose , appears to us now very natural . This hypothesis is , moreover , borne out by the progress made in the ...
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... naturally transform flint nodules into " eoliths . " * The discovery of mechanically made . " pseudo - eoliths " has undoubtedly modified the views of many of those who , endowing primitive races with characters which could have ...
... naturally transform flint nodules into " eoliths . " * The discovery of mechanically made . " pseudo - eoliths " has undoubtedly modified the views of many of those who , endowing primitive races with characters which could have ...
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... natural causes . These implements are rude , and often extremely primitive . " In the best examples the flaking , either through imperfect know- ledge of the craft , possibly also owing to the texture or composition of the material used ...
... natural causes . These implements are rude , and often extremely primitive . " In the best examples the flaking , either through imperfect know- ledge of the craft , possibly also owing to the texture or composition of the material used ...
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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