The Stone Ages of South Africa. 



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any suggestion made or question put to them, that I concluded from 

 her physiognomy that she was also willing to please. However, 

 when this photograph was shown to the Bushwoman of whom we 

 took a cast, and who is represented in PI. XXVIII., not only did 

 she acknowledge that it was a true position, but seizing a stick she 

 gave a most energetic display of the two or three different styles 



Fig. 13. 



of manipulation of the handle required for the orthodox extraction 

 of roots. This evidence completely corroborates the use of the per- 

 forated stone as part of a digging implement, and very likely also the 

 implement with which, or partly by means of which, the snares or 

 game-pits were dug. But was this its sole raison d'etre ? Plainly 

 not ! 



In Europe these globular stones are considered to have been club- 

 heads. In France, and in England, as well as in Northern Europe 



