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Site report on the archaeological content from a midden and semi vegetated dune site, Millerton Beach.
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South Africa--Antiquities, Middens--South Africa, , ,
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Description
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:22004
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Site reports, notes and letters regarding the Milner on Lagoon archaeological site in Cape Town.
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South Africa--Antiquities, Middens--South Africa, , , ,
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Site reports and letters on the archaeological material (which includes human remains) found on a dune site, Millerton Lagoon, Cape Town, South Africa. The finds on the site include human skeletons, marine shell, which hints at a possible midden on the site, stone tools (cobbles etc.), human skeletons, ostrich egg shell beads, ochre, hearth feature and beads.
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Identifier
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islandora:21984
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Site report of rock painting and archaeological site: Bainskloof
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South Africa--Antiquities, Rock paintings--South Africa, , ,
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The site report consists of a typed report and a hand drawn map on plastic paper of the rock painting and archaeological site in the Bainskloof Pass in the Hawequas Forest Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa. The rock paintings consist of, amongst other things human and animal figures.
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Identifier
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islandora:21774
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Title
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Archaeological exploration, Grand Parade, 1983
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Archaeology, Colonialism, Women
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Archaeologist Miss Gabebah Abrahams works in a building site trench on the Grand Parade where she is convinced she has found remains of the base of one of four bastions of Van Riebeeck's original earth-walled fort.
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Identifier
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islandora:17160
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Archaeological finds, Golden Acre, 1975
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Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:17489
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Site report on archaeological material: Bloubergstrand.
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South Africa--Antiquities, , ,
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:21884
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Site report of archaeological material from a sand dune, Woodstock Beach.
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South Africa--Antiquities, Rock paintings--South Africa, , ,
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Handwritten site report of material found on a sand dune, Woodstock beach, Western Cape, South Africa. Archaeological material was found on the surface and probably from the Later Stone Age. It included ostrich egg shell beads, ostrich egg shell fragments, small bone fragments, stone chips and stone tools, including a hand axe.
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Identifier
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islandora:21988
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Title
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Archaeological finds, Golden Acre site, Cape Town, 1975
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Water, Archaeology, Building, Urban development
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Description
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:17493
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A small assegai and whetstone discovered at the archaeological site of the ǂKhomani San 's former living area
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Subject
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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, ,
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:26981