Source book for African anthropology

Hambly, Wilfrid Dyson; Martin, Paul S.

doi:10.5962/bhl.title.7134

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“…Historical records refer to fishing baskets made of twigs and reeds (Hambly 1937;Schapera 1930;Stow 1905;Willcox 1963) and these are still used today by many societies (Ankei 1989;Skelton 2001) and the construction of reed fences and stone dams over dry river courses prior to floods have been recorded along the Orange River (Schapera 1930). Once the river subsides, fish that have been trapped are easily collected.…”

Section: Nets and Baskets/woven Fish Trapsmentioning

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Marine fish exploitation during the Middle and Later Stone Age of South Africa

Niekerk¹

2011

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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access to the Blombos Cave and Blombosfontein 1 and 6 materials and to Hilary Deacon for access to the Klasies River main site fish remains. Sarah Wurz and Petro Keene were very helpful with regards to access of material curated at the IZIKO South African Museum, for which I am grateful, and it was a pleasure working with both of them.Thanks are due to Paul Cowley from the South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB) who very kindly and with considerable effort supplied me with a number of species that were lacking from my comparative collection. Special thanks to Nicholas Henshilwood and Morgan Wilson for their enthusiastic help in augmenting the comparative collection with their fishing expeditions. Drs P. and E. Heemstra, along with the publications department of the SAIAB, kindly gave me permission to use the illustrations of the fish species from their book (2004) Coastal Fishes of Southern Africa.

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Section: Nets and Baskets/woven Fish Trapsmentioning

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“…Fishing with poison has been practiced by cultures across the world and is still employed today (Alvarez Arias 2000;Béarez 1998;De Smet 1998;Hambly 1937;Hornell 1941;Obomanu et al 2007;Quigley 1956). Plants containing rotenoids or saponins, as well as certain Euphorbiaceae are most commonly used to kill or stun fish (Bearez 1998).…”

Section: Piscicidesmentioning

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Marine fish exploitation during the Middle and Later Stone Age of South Africa

Niekerk¹

2011

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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“…As a result, he had an advantage when gold dust was weighed out to him. 30 Chalmers 31 has listed the various weight units and their values prevalent in Gold Coast in the nineteenth century, for weighing gold dust to circulate it as currency. The general rate was 3l.12s (shillings) per ounce of gold dust.…”

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Particulate gold as money and currency material

Dube¹

2005

Powder Metallurgy

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In ancient times, alluvial placer gold deposits were an important source from which particulate gold was derived by panning, and such naturally occurring gold has been widely used as currency throughout the world. Examples, from ancient to pre-modern times, from Western Africa, the USA and Asia are presented. The Ghana administration was unique in becoming so committed to particulate gold currency that by the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, existing solid gold currency was being converted into particulate gold. As is discussed, particulate gold was preferred to counter the practice of embedding base metal inside the solid gold currency.

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Cork-kerry Irish compared anthropometrically with 139 modern and ancient peoples

Casey¹,

Franklin²

1961

Ir J Med Sci

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Source book for African anthropology

Cited by 8 publications

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Marine fish exploitation during the Middle and Later Stone Age of South Africa

Marine fish exploitation during the Middle and Later Stone Age of South Africa

Particulate gold as money and currency material

Cork-kerry Irish compared anthropometrically with 139 modern and ancient peoples

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