Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... probably due . On the other hand , if the natural texture of the material used allows under any kind of concussion ... probably never intended . One point , however , cannot be disproved , and that is , the South . African palæoliths ...
... probably due . On the other hand , if the natural texture of the material used allows under any kind of concussion ... probably never intended . One point , however , cannot be disproved , and that is , the South . African palæoliths ...
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... probably replaced the former lithic industry . It may be termed South African Neolithic . It includes household utensils , mortars , querns , mullers , un- doubtedly polished by usage and not intentionally ; we have the " kwè , " or ...
... probably replaced the former lithic industry . It may be termed South African Neolithic . It includes household utensils , mortars , querns , mullers , un- doubtedly polished by usage and not intentionally ; we have the " kwè , " or ...
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... probably discarded immediately after , we find a laurel leaf- shaped lance - head worked by careful secondary trimming on either side and of nearly pure Solutrian type ; a " coup de poing " of a finish equal to the best Acheulean . We ...
... probably discarded immediately after , we find a laurel leaf- shaped lance - head worked by careful secondary trimming on either side and of nearly pure Solutrian type ; a " coup de poing " of a finish equal to the best Acheulean . We ...
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... probably a very long time in South Africa , as elsewhere . I have already ex- pressed my belief , based on purely antiquarian grounds , and according to the tenets of the classification generally accepted , that " we have in South ...
... probably a very long time in South Africa , as elsewhere . I have already ex- pressed my belief , based on purely antiquarian grounds , and according to the tenets of the classification generally accepted , that " we have in South ...
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South African Museum. north - western part , from probably the beginning of the quaternary period . Great , almost unsurmountable , therefore are the difficulties front- ing the Antiquarian in South Africa : first , because geology and ...
South African Museum. north - western part , from probably the beginning of the quaternary period . Great , almost unsurmountable , therefore are the difficulties front- ing the Antiquarian in South Africa : first , because geology and ...
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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