Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... races this result is probably due . On the other hand , if the 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 ...
... races this result is probably due . On the other hand , if the 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 ...
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... races , some extremely ancient , others less so , and others again well - nigh contemporaneous , I must warn the student that it should not be taken for granted that the evolution or transformation of an industry is always on the lines ...
... races , some extremely ancient , others less so , and others again well - nigh contemporaneous , I must warn the student that it should not be taken for granted that the evolution or transformation of an industry is always on the lines ...
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... race had peopled Africa at the palæolithic stage . One or more races have supervened , possibly absorbed the former , and perhaps replaced it . Unfortunately , neither geology nor palæontology has been able to give us , so far , a clue ...
... race had peopled Africa at the palæolithic stage . One or more races have supervened , possibly absorbed the former , and perhaps replaced it . Unfortunately , neither geology nor palæontology has been able to give us , so far , a clue ...
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... races of mankind that manufactured these implements . Nor is he easy in his mind that this lithic industry is not the result of causes due to the growing intellectual power of man , affecting people in widely distant countries at the ...
... races of mankind that manufactured these implements . Nor is he easy in his mind that this lithic industry is not the result of causes due to the growing intellectual power of man , affecting people in widely distant countries at the ...
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... race . The height is moderate , 1m 60 ; he has large orbits , " the superciliary ridge forms a kind of vizor above them " ; the jaw is powerful ; there is a total absence of chin , & c . " * However primitive this middle pleistocene man ...
... race . The height is moderate , 1m 60 ; he has large orbits , " the superciliary ridge forms a kind of vizor above them " ; the jaw is powerful ; there is a total absence of chin , & c . " * However primitive this middle pleistocene man ...
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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