Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... palæolith , " in honour of Boucher de Perthes , the French savant who was , if not the first discoverer , at least the ... palæoliths , other than the ubiquitous and probably surviving type of knife - scraper , correspond to the " celt ...
... palæolith , " in honour of Boucher de Perthes , the French savant who was , if not the first discoverer , at least the ... palæoliths , other than the ubiquitous and probably surviving type of knife - scraper , correspond to the " celt ...
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... palæoliths were afterwards found in situ , showing therefore contemporaneity with those so - called Eoliths . I have received from Mr. Leith himself , and also from other con- tributors , a considerable number of these implements ; they ...
... palæoliths were afterwards found in situ , showing therefore contemporaneity with those so - called Eoliths . I have received from Mr. Leith himself , and also from other con- tributors , a considerable number of these implements ; they ...
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... palæoliths are made of dolerite , oftener of shale indurated by the intrusion of dolerite , or of a hard chert band occurring at the top of the Dwyka shales . There also the " knapper " has , where possible , made use of large pebbles ...
... palæoliths are made of dolerite , oftener of shale indurated by the intrusion of dolerite , or of a hard chert band occurring at the top of the Dwyka shales . There also the " knapper " has , where possible , made use of large pebbles ...
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... palæoliths of Griqua Town , but made of impure , not banded jasper . Some are small chalcedony bouchers chipped on one face only or nearly flat , and resembling greatly , in fact identical with , the Zambesi silicious implements ; but ...
... palæoliths of Griqua Town , but made of impure , not banded jasper . Some are small chalcedony bouchers chipped on one face only or nearly flat , and resembling greatly , in fact identical with , the Zambesi silicious implements ; but ...
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... palæoliths are made from a rounded boulder or large pebble , water - worn or otherwise , it is probable that a boulder of the same size , or perhaps heavier , was hurled against the one which it was intended to split in order to obtain ...
... palæoliths are made from a rounded boulder or large pebble , water - worn or otherwise , it is probable that a boulder of the same size , or perhaps heavier , was hurled against the one which it was intended to split in order to obtain ...
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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