Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... similar gum - cement , a few arrow - heads with tang , worked on both sides ; and a ground axe of neolithic type are also recorded . * The evolution in the manufacture of these tools took probably a very long time in South Africa , as ...
... similar gum - cement , a few arrow - heads with tang , worked on both sides ; and a ground axe of neolithic type are also recorded . * The evolution in the manufacture of these tools took probably a very long time in South Africa , as ...
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... similar ones in Europe , led many Antiquarians to adopt the theory . It may not be out of place to give here an explanation of the making of tools by blows or percussion . If the blow is direct and delivered with great force the ...
... similar ones in Europe , led many Antiquarians to adopt the theory . It may not be out of place to give here an explanation of the making of tools by blows or percussion . If the blow is direct and delivered with great force the ...
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... Natal . It is in the G. Leith Collection , now in the Pretoria Museum . I know of similar ones from East London , as well as from Swaziland . Many of the bouchers of the Stellenbosch type retain also 18 Annals of the South African Museum .
... Natal . It is in the G. Leith Collection , now in the Pretoria Museum . I know of similar ones from East London , as well as from Swaziland . Many of the bouchers of the Stellenbosch type retain also 18 Annals of the South African Museum .
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... similar indeed to the banded jasper 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 ...
... similar indeed to the banded jasper 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 ...
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... similar material have been lately found in German South - West Africa ( Pl . XIX . , Fig . 147 ) , but they can in nowise be compared with bouchers . They are plainly ostrich egg- shell borers , and if they are made of the same material ...
... similar material have been lately found in German South - West Africa ( Pl . XIX . , Fig . 147 ) , but they can in nowise be compared with bouchers . They are plainly ostrich egg- shell borers , and if they are made of the same material ...
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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