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Boskop|ˈbɒskɒp|
[The name of a place in the Transvaal, South Africa.]
In attrib. use with man, race, etc.: of or belonging to the early type of man indicated by the skull of the late Pleistocene period found at Boskop. Hence ˈBoskopoid a. [-oid], characterized by the type of skull found at Boskop; also as n.
1915Nature 5 Aug. 615/2 The Boskop man was of the Neanderthal race, but more advanced in intelligence. 1926Bantu Studies II. 219 Comparison has been made mainly with the Boskopoid remains from Zitzikama reported upon..during the last two years, and with the descriptions of the original Boskop remains. 1948A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (ed. 2) iii. 108 Undoubtedly Neanthropic is the Boskop type... The Boskop type skulls are massive and large. 1959J. D. Clark Prehist. S. Afr. iv. 97 The physical types belonging with the earlier occupation levels at this site were in fact ‘Bush-Boskopoids’. 1966E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo vii. 118 The Middle Stone Age people—the Boskop race—of South Africa were not one race but several. |