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pottery. At both sites we find red pottery of trie type designated 

 Strandlocper by Dr. Peringuey : it is ornamented with parallel 

 incised lines around the rim externally, as is often the case in 

 pottery from Port Alfred and other coastal sites. The distribu- 

 tion of such decorated pottery has not yet been worked out in 

 detail, but its importance in discriminating between the cultures 

 of the various aboriginal types may be assumed. 



Thus we may reasonably suppose that the cultures of the 

 Cradock middens and of the Spitzkop cave are referable to the 

 same people. It is neolithic, and not strictly comparable to that 

 of the European cave period, as is sometimes stated on the evidence 

 of the end-scrapers. Here I may add that in a review of Johnson's 

 book, published in "L'Homme prehistorique," for June, 1909, 

 exception is taken to the author's identification of his South 

 African material with the Solutric group of Europe. The reviewer 

 states that our material has only a vague analogy with the Soiu- 

 trean, and can be more justly compared with the Tardenoisieu, 

 "dont elle se rapproche par ses petite nucleus, ses petits grattoirs, 

 ses fines lames taillees en pointe, et ses minuscules instruments de 

 formes geometriques en silex, jasper, etc." 



This view can be reconciled with that now put forward when 

 it is remembered that Johnson's Modder River group of imple- 

 ments, composed chiefly of large end-scrapers, included no such 

 typical neoliths as those now recorded from Spitzkop and Vaal- 

 krantz. It seems clear that end-scrapers are of little value in 

 differentiating: allied cultures 



Some Coastal Neolithic Implements. 



The coastal middens of the Eastern Province have not been 

 systematically explored, and we know nothing of the sequence 

 of cultures they may contain, beyond the fact that the shell- 

 mound implements are of very varied technique. The Neolithic 

 culture is represented by kwe stones, some in the process of 

 making, and by pottery of the type hitherto mentioned. The 

 following superior speciments I am also inclined to refer to this 

 culture. Three flake implements from Kleinemonde, Bathurst 

 coast, collected many years ago by Dr. W. G. Atherstone. They 

 (Figs. 3 and 4) are in the form of small, but fairly thick, lance- 

 heads, one long and narrow (63mm. by 22mm.), the others much 

 broader and a little shorter (59mm. by 35mm., and 56mm. by 

 30 mm.) In each case, the upper surface of the flake has been 

 worked all over, the dorsal ridge being thereby obliterated : the 

 butt has been rounded, and the bulb of percussion has been 

 completely removed by surface flaking ; otherwise, the lower sur- 

 face of the original flake remains untouched. The dorsal flaking 

 is rather delicate in two of the specimens, but in no case has any 

 attempt been made to seriously reduce the thickness of the 

 specimen. 



Such implements are not known to me from local caves, nor 

 from shell-mounds on the Great Fish River, but a single specimen 



