Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... Neolithic . It includes household utensils , mortars , querns , mullers , un- doubtedly polished by usage and not intentionally ; we have the " kwè , " or perforated disk or orb ; we have also pottery of a type unknown elsewhere , beads ...
... Neolithic . It includes household utensils , mortars , querns , mullers , un- doubtedly polished by usage and not intentionally ; we have the " kwè , " or perforated disk or orb ; we have also pottery of a type unknown elsewhere , beads ...
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... NEOLITHIC SOUTH AFRICAN IMPLEMENTS . In 1866 the late Sir Langham Dale discovered close to his residence on the Cape Flats , near Cape Town , stones showing plain marks of artificial working . These examples were submitted to experts in ...
... NEOLITHIC SOUTH AFRICAN IMPLEMENTS . In 1866 the late Sir Langham Dale discovered close to his residence on the Cape Flats , near Cape Town , stones showing plain marks of artificial working . These examples were submitted to experts in ...
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... neolithic type are also recorded . * The evolution in the manufacture of these tools took probably a very long time in South Africa , as elsewhere . I have already ex- pressed my belief , based on purely antiquarian grounds , and ...
... neolithic type are also recorded . * The evolution in the manufacture of these tools took probably a very long time in South Africa , as elsewhere . I have already ex- pressed my belief , based on purely antiquarian grounds , and ...
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... Neolithic type is that , although for certain purposes stones were polished , yet it cannot be said that an attempt was made to make the weapons of the same period more serviceable or more effective by this polishing or grinding process ...
... Neolithic type is that , although for certain purposes stones were polished , yet it cannot be said that an attempt was made to make the weapons of the same period more serviceable or more effective by this polishing or grinding process ...
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... neolithic mullers figured in Pl . XXIII . There is no reason for disbelieving that the primitive people who made the palæoliths availed themselves of these objects primarily fashioned partially , if not completely , by natural agencies ...
... neolithic mullers figured in Pl . XXIII . There is no reason for disbelieving that the primitive people who made the palæoliths availed themselves of these objects primarily fashioned partially , if not completely , by natural agencies ...
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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