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of many of the smaller implements that retain still a Mousterian 

 facies, as the following examples show 



Figs. 124 and 129 are made of lydianite ; the first example is 

 greatly polished, in all likelihood by eolian agency. Fig. 129, of a 

 shape and manufacture absolutely identical, is made of green bottle- 

 glass. It is from Pearston, in the Cape Colony, and was found with 

 other rough scrapers. We know that the town of Pearston has not 

 been long founded. 



Some eight years ago Eev. W. A. Adams submitted to me several 

 examples of bevelled scrapers greatly resembling Cut 12 of Fig. 123, 

 which he collected at du Toit's Pan, close to Kimberley, in Griqua- 

 land West. They are made respectively of green bottle-glass and of 

 thick plate-glass. They are as carefully bevelled as the indurated 

 shale, agate, or quartz implements of the same style of manufac- 

 ture. Now Kimberley and du Toit's Pan date from 1870, and it is 

 highly improbable that plate-glass was introduced there before 

 1880. 



When treating of the pygmy flakes or borers, or of some of the 

 Cape shell-mounds or sand-dune middens, it will be shown that 

 implements have been found lying together with various objects of 

 European manufacture. 



That South Africa was partially in the Stone Age some four or 

 five hundred years back, and most probably even later than that, 

 must needs be accepted as an established fact. 



A characteristic trait of the culture of the Aurignacian-Solutrian 

 man is his ability to reproduce by pigment on parietal (rock) 

 surface, or even occasionally on water-worn stones, images of the 

 scenes that appealed to him, or to grave on the walls, or the floor 

 of the recesses he occupied, and more numerously perhaps on 

 bones of mammals, figures, often realistic indeed, of the animals 

 he chased. 



We have here also presentments which compare with the artistic 

 skill of the Solutrian man. Our rock-paintings are inferior as a 

 rule, but not always, to those found in Southern France or Spain, 

 whilst our rock-gravings are, in many instances, far superior. 



But comparison of the bone- or stone-implements found in, or 

 near, the famous Altamira Cave, with those of our rock-shelters 

 or caves where paintings or gravings occur, reveals a great dis- 

 similarity, greater, however, in the stone than in the bone tools. 



The gravings here are in the open. In a few cases we can asso- 

 ciate with them palaeoliths of the Chelleo-Mousterian type ; also 

 in one instance gravers of the Mousterian long, scraper-form. 



