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Steinheim|ˈʃtaɪnhaɪm|
The name of a village twelve miles north of Stuttgart, West Germany, used absol. or attrib. in Steinheim skull to designate a Middle Pleistocene fossil hominid known from a skull found there in 1933 by Karl Sigrist and described as Homo steinheimensis by F. Berckhemer in 1936 (Forschungen & Fortschritte XII. 349/2).
1946F. E. Zeuner Dating Past ix. 296 If the geological age of the Steinheim Skull were settled..we should at least know whether he, or his ancestor, lived in the middle Pleistocene. 1973B. J. Williams Evolution & Human Origins x. 170/1 The Steinheim skull also comes from a gravel pit. Ibid. 170/2 In facial features Steinheim could indeed be a good ancestor for the later Neandertals. |