Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 8South African Museum, 1911 - Natual history |
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... scrapers are the rarest . 3. These scrapers are not as smoothly polished as represented in the plate , this smoothness being due to the process - block reproduction . 4. Only those examples that would prove likely to support the ...
... scrapers are the rarest . 3. These scrapers are not as smoothly polished as represented in the plate , this smoothness being due to the process - block reproduction . 4. Only those examples that would prove likely to support the ...
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... SCRAPER - KNIVES . * But if we reject , for the reasons already given , the evidence of the Pretoria implements as eolithic , we are faced with forms of a type and technique so truly palæolithic , and especially lower palæolithic , that ...
... SCRAPER - KNIVES . * But if we reject , for the reasons already given , the evidence of the Pretoria implements as eolithic , we are faced with forms of a type and technique so truly palæolithic , and especially lower palæolithic , that ...
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... scrapers , knives , missiles , burins or bores , pottery or other implements of domestic use cannot be taken into account here . It will be fully treated in other chapters . I may preface the description of the stones by explaining that ...
... scrapers , knives , missiles , burins or bores , pottery or other implements of domestic use cannot be taken into account here . It will be fully treated in other chapters . I may preface the description of the stones by explaining that ...
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... scraper - knife type ( Pl . XX . , Figs . 121 , 122 ) . Implements made of 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 ...
... scraper - knife type ( Pl . XX . , Figs . 121 , 122 ) . Implements made of 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 ...
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... scraper , its edges are too sinuous to permit of it having been a cleaving tool . Moreover it is , like Fig . 18 , made of a surface quartzite differing from the material used for the Stellenbosch type , and is certainly less ancient ...
... scraper , its edges are too sinuous to permit of it having been a cleaving tool . Moreover it is , like Fig . 18 , made of a surface quartzite differing from the material used for the Stellenbosch type , and is certainly less ancient ...
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