Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... possible to postulate for man ( whether anthropomorphous ape or not ) a very ancient origin ancient in a geological sense - it is certainly to Africa that one would turn to find his original home , because for incalcu- lable time a ...
... possible to postulate for man ( whether anthropomorphous ape or not ) a very ancient origin ancient in a geological sense - it is certainly to Africa that one would turn to find his original home , because for incalcu- lable time a ...
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... possible age of the South African finds . The question is still more complicated owing to material of a paleæolithic type of the highest finish , as well as of ruder kind , having been found in valleys where old river terraces cannot be ...
... possible age of the South African finds . The question is still more complicated owing to material of a paleæolithic type of the highest finish , as well as of ruder kind , having been found in valleys where old river terraces cannot be ...
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... possible to make the known South African finds fit in with the classifications of Mortillet or of other authors . There is , moreover , a chain of evidence being slowly forged which points to a resemblance between implements from the ...
... possible to make the known South African finds fit in with the classifications of Mortillet or of other authors . There is , moreover , a chain of evidence being slowly forged which points to a resemblance between implements from the ...
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... possible to attribute to the implements figured by Leith a more ancient origin than to the Chellean , Acheulean , or Mousterian types occurring so abundantly all over South Africa ; and this for the following reasons : - 1. These ...
... possible to attribute to the implements figured by Leith a more ancient origin than to the Chellean , Acheulean , or Mousterian types occurring so abundantly all over South Africa ; and this for the following reasons : - 1. These ...
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... possible . Their resemblance to the quartzite implements found in Europe , Algeria , Congo , India , is indeed extreme , and the process of manufacture appears to have been the same . The late E. T. Hamy was quite justified in stating ...
... possible . Their resemblance to the quartzite implements found in Europe , Algeria , Congo , India , is indeed extreme , and the process of manufacture appears to have been the same . The late E. T. Hamy was quite justified in stating ...
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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