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Title: A small assegai and whetstone discovered at the archaeological site of the ǂKhomani San 's former living area
Subject: Kleinman, Karel "Vet Piet"', San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, San (African people)--Implements, Khomani (African people)--Implements, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Karel "Vet Piet" Kleinman shows a small assegai and an whetstone of San origin found at the archaeological site of the ǂKhomani San 's former living area near Mbiwe.Images from this trip document the first excursions into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and were a central part of the work on oral history and mapping in the first years of research.
Identifier: islandora:26981

Title: Site report on the archaeological content from a midden and semi vegetated dune site, Millerton Beach.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, Middens--South Africa, , ,
Description: Site report on the archaeological content from a midden and semi vegetated dune site, Millerton Beach, Western Cape, South Africa. The following archaeological material was found: animal remains, hearths, ostrich egg shells beads and pieces and pottery. Flakes, pebbles and hammer stones were examples of the types of stone tools found. European artefacts such as clay pipes were found.
Identifier: islandora:22004

Title: Archaeological site report, Ceres.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, , ,
Description: Typed site report on an archaeological site located in Baviaanshoek, Karoopoort Outspan, Ceres Area, Western Cape, South Africa. Later Stone Age stone tools, fragments of ostrich egg shells, chert flakes, and scrapers were found.
Identifier: islandora:21846

Title: A small rusted container discovered at the archaeological site of the ǂKhomani San 's former living area
Subject: Kleinman, Karel "Vet Piet"', San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, San (African people)--Implements, Khomani (African people)--Implements, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Karel "Vet Piet" Kleinman holding a small rusted container found at the Mbiwe living site and archaeological site.Images from this trip document the first excursions into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and were a central part of the work on oral history and mapping in the first years of research.
Identifier: islandora:26974

Title: Archaeological finds, Golden Acre site, Cape Town, 1975
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
Description: Jessie Fagan (nearest the camera) and colleagues from the South African Museum and University of Cape Town, at work unearthing stone at Cape Town's Golden Acre - part of a dam wall dating back to the earliest days of the Cape. It is hoped to remove sections for preservation.
Identifier: islandora:17492

Title: Site report on archaeological material: Bloubergstrand.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, , ,
Description: Handwritten site report on archaeological material found at Bloubergstrand, Western Cape, South Africa. The archaeological content of the site is as follows: black mussels, other marine shells like patella, pottery, bone and stone, not worked.
Identifier: islandora:21884

Title: Archaeological finds, Golden Acre, 1975
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
Description: Archaeologists from the South African Museum and the University of Cape Town busy unearthing the dam wall found on Cape Town's Golden Acre. It is now thought that the wall is part of the reservoir built by Jan Van Riebeeck's successor, Zacharias Wagenaar. Although it suffered slight damage when the foundations of Cape Town's old station were sunk, it is still in good condition.
Identifier: islandora:17489

Title: Site report on a rock painting and archaeology site with two photographs and a map overlay, Ceres.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, Rock paintings--South Africa, , ,
Description: Typed site report on a rock painting and archaeology site with two photographs and a map overlay in Bavianshoek, Karoopoort, Ceres district, Western Cape, South Africa. Scattered quartz and chert flakes, cores and scrapers were found and 1 hammer stone (quartzite). Rock paintings are of horses, a dog and antelope.
Identifier: islandora:21848

Title: Site report from the Natal Museum's Archaeology Department, on a midden site in Cape Town.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, Middens--South Africa, , ,
Description: Typed site report from the Natal Museum's Archaeology Department, on a midden site in Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:22083

Title: Site report with attached article: "Geomorphology, Archaeology and Anthropology from Bok Baai, Darling District, Cape Province
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, , ,
Description: Site report with attached article: "Geomorphology, Archaeology and Anthropology from Bok Baai, Darling District, Cape Province
Identifier: islandora:21993

Title: Site report in two formats on the rock paintings and archaeological materials found at two sites on the farm Danielskraal in the Little Karoo.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, Rock paintings--South Africa, , ,
Description: Typed and handwritten site report on the archaeological materials and rock paintings found at 2 shelters, a rock shelter and a kloof at Danielskraal, Little Karoo, Western Cape, South Africa. Material found includes flakes, eggshell pieces, grinding stones and bored sea shell. The rock paintings in the rock shelter are described as red pictures; in the kloof site, as faded pictures.
Identifier: islandora:21804

Title: A small rusted container discovered at the archaeological site of the ǂKhomani San 's former living area
Subject: San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, San (African people)--Implements, Khomani (African people)--Implements, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: An unidentified person shows a rusted polish tin found at the archaeological site at the former living site at Mbiwe.Images from this trip document the first excursions into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and were a central part of the work on oral history and mapping in the first years of research.
Identifier: islandora:26975

Title: Archaeological finds, Golden Acre site, Cape Town, 1975
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
Description: Mr Michael Wilson (left), the archaeologist working on the Golden Acre site, points out a section of what may be the wall of Van Riebeeck's historic 'drinkwaterback' dam to Mr Graeme Clark, site engineer.
Identifier: islandora:17493

Title: Site report on the archaeological content of a midden site: Bloubergstrand.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, Middens--South Africa, , ,
Description: Typed site report on the archaeological material found in a deflated midden site at Bloubergstrand, Western Cape, South Africa. Finds included stone material (quartzite quartz and Silcrete ) and shells.
Identifier: islandora:21913

Title: Site report on the archaeological material, including a child burial site, of an eroded slope area: Hottentots Huisie, Cape Town.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, , ,
Description: Handwritten site report on the archaeological material, including a child burial site, found on an eroded slope area at Hottentots Huisie, Cape Town, South Africa. The burial site is presumed to be Late Stone Age.
Identifier: islandora:22039

Title: Report on the archaeological survey of the Silverstroom Strand resort area: University of Cape Town Archaeological Field Club.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, , , ,
Description: Late Stone Age sites containing sea shells, animal bones and pottery.
Identifier: islandora:21927

Title: Archaeological finds, Golden Acre site, Cape Town, 1975
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
Description: Label on every stone - The first part of the dismantling process of the historic wall sections got under way at the Golden Acre site yesterday when detailed photographs of the stones were taken from a hydraulic crane. Each stone has been labelled to assist the SA Museum authorities to rebuild them exactly as they were. The sections were provisionally declared national monuments. The fate of the reservoir is still to be decided.
Identifier: islandora:17494

Title: Archaeological Site report, Ceres.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, , ,
Description: Typed site report on an archaeological site located in Baviaanshoek, Karoopoort Outspan, Ceres Area, Western Cape, South Africa. Finds included a few stone tools in and around the site, possibly Later Stone Age and flakes of grey and black chert.
Identifier: islandora:21847

Title: Site report on the archaeological material found on the midden sites: Area A and Area B :Riet Valley.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, Middens--South Africa, ,
Description: Typed site report on the archaeological material found on the midden sites: Area A and Area B, Riet Valley, Western Cape, South Africa. Material found in Area A includes fragmented shell, small tools (suspected to be scrapers of Silcrete, quartzite and quartz) and ostrich egg shell fragments and bone. In Area B archaeological material found included ostrich egg shell fragments, and flakes (Silcrete and quartz).
Identifier: islandora:21912

Title: Archaeological finds, Golden Acre site, Cape Town, 1975
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
Description: A section of a 250-year-old canal wall was lifted at the Golden Acre site today. The canal originally formed part of an attractive grid of canals, some of which linked what are now Adderley, Plein, Darling and Strand Streets. The wall is to be stored and later re-erected on the piazza of the shopping centre to be built on the site.
Identifier: islandora:17491

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