Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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Page 6
... sand - dunes by the sea - coast , when these are exposed and bared , to be no less periodically covered again , by the boisterous prevailing winds . They are common near the water - places called here " fonteins , " i.e. , springs , and ...
... sand - dunes by the sea - coast , when these are exposed and bared , to be no less periodically covered again , by the boisterous prevailing winds . They are common near the water - places called here " fonteins , " i.e. , springs , and ...
Page 18
... sand- stone may be , precludes the possibility of their ever acquiring a fine polish , they are of a type so numerously illustrated in all the South African districts of the Cape Colony and also beyond ( Cape , Stellen- bosch , Paarl ...
... sand- stone may be , precludes the possibility of their ever acquiring a fine polish , they are of a type so numerously illustrated in all the South African districts of the Cape Colony and also beyond ( Cape , Stellen- bosch , Paarl ...
Page 27
... sand - dune , which had been temporarily removed by abnormally strong winds , quite a number of these extremely large detaching hammers plainly bearing marks of the use to which they had been put . They were associated with river ...
... sand - dune , which had been temporarily removed by abnormally strong winds , quite a number of these extremely large detaching hammers plainly bearing marks of the use to which they had been put . They were associated with river ...
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... sand , with the exception , of course , of those washed into ' spruits . ' " The Bushman ' deposit is almost wholly confined to the river- banks . Scattered over the veldt , however , are occasionally flakes , lance - like in form ...
... sand , with the exception , of course , of those washed into ' spruits . ' " The Bushman ' deposit is almost wholly confined to the river- banks . Scattered over the veldt , however , are occasionally flakes , lance - like in form ...
Page 56
... sand at A and are clearing out the gravel at B for sifting and sorting . All the imple- ments sent come from B. This , then , is the lowest terrace , and * A former assistant of this Museum , and now in charge of the McGregor's Memorial ...
... sand at A and are clearing out the gravel at B for sifting and sorting . All the imple- ments sent come from B. This , then , is the lowest terrace , and * A former assistant of this Museum , and now in charge of the McGregor's Memorial ...
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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