Southern Africa, the land and its peoples . es have keen edges, andappear to have been used with a handle—the ancestral knife. Other relics includedigging stones, suggesting primitive agri-culture. MiddlePalaeolithic LowerPalaeolithic StiU Bay Glen Grey ... (nearQueenstown) Fauresmith ... Stellenbosch . Victoria West Blades pointed at both ends, probably fastened to wooden hafts and used as flakes, discs, scrapers, sharpened pebbles, delicately-made chopping tools; the workmanship suggests Neoanthropic implements of fine workmanship, usually of indurated
Southern Africa, the land and its peoples . es have keen edges, andappear to have been used with a handle—the ancestral knife. Other relics includedigging stones, suggesting primitive agri-culture. MiddlePalaeolithic LowerPalaeolithic StiU Bay Glen Grey ... (nearQueenstown) Fauresmith ... Stellenbosch . Victoria West Blades pointed at both ends, probably fastened to wooden hafts and used as flakes, discs, scrapers, sharpened pebbles, delicately-made chopping tools; the workmanship suggests Neoanthropic implements of fine workmanship, usually of indurated and scraping tools, usually of quartzite ; primitive chopping tools and cleavers, usually of dolerite ;* beak-shaped implements. The considerable weathering to which these implements have been exposed suggests great antiquity. GEO] The antiquit) of the Wilton and Smithfield peoples can hardly be surmised, but they were still in existence m the early days ofEuropean occupation. Smithfield man was responsible for man\. i, Clearer, Stellenboeob Lnduatrj • -• Coup de poing, tnith [ndustrj ; ;. Lanoel ill ha> Lndnatr] reooanta and Wilton [nduatrj ; •?. Awl. Wilton Induetrj :i. Knife: a, cr» V baft, Wilton Indoatrj . 7. Pmtkl ami mortar, Smthfleld Induitai j, of the rock-engravings and paintings commonly described asBushman1 drawings. These art-forms were executed over a long period of time : in many of the caves figures ha\ I been painted over figures drawn perhaps hundreds of years earlier. Thepaintings show a fairly definite chronological order, with a marked 54 INTRODUCTION development in respect of motif, colour and technique. The pigments were derived from minerals found locally ; gum, Euphorbialatex and animal fat appear to have been used to make the paintwaterproof. The most recent remains of prehistoric man in South Africaare those of the Kitchen Middens of the coast region. Theseconsist of enormous heaps of implements, po
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