. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Text-fig. 4.—Two " blocked out " stones showing stages in the manufacture of coups-de-poing. One end was pointed, the rest was left intact. The next step was the normal one of removing flakes from about the perimeter. Another method (found by Lowe at Knysna) was to take a large pebble, split off a reasonable flake, and trim this from the boulder-face, working round the perimeter. (See Plate IV.) Here the boulder-face took up the whole of one face of the coup-de-poing, the work would be cont
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Text-fig. 4.—Two " blocked out " stones showing stages in the manufacture of coups-de-poing. One end was pointed, the rest was left intact. The next step was the normal one of removing flakes from about the perimeter. Another method (found by Lowe at Knysna) was to take a large pebble, split off a reasonable flake, and trim this from the boulder-face, working round the perimeter. (See Plate IV.) Here the boulder-face took up the whole of one face of the coup-de-poing, the work would be continued in the normal way from now on. A third method employed was to remove a large flake, or perhaps better, a large lump, then to remove from this a flake. The result was a large flake having two convex faces, one forming each face. The object can best be described as a lens from which two opposite edges have been cut off square. (Fig. 4 b.) Trimmed flakes were next removed from along each edge, from alternate faces, and if successful the work would be continued in the normal way. One point is of importance, as it will be reverted to in speaking of the Fauresmith coup-de-poing ; the two convex faces each have a normal bulb of percussion, but each is at the side of the face it governs, at the edge vol. xxvii. 3. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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