单词 | saldanha |
释义 | Saldanhan. Palaeontology. Used attributively with reference to an extinct hominid known from fossil remains found at Elandsfontein near Hopefield in Saldanha Bay, South Africa, regarded as the same form as Kabwe man; esp. in Saldanha Man. Cf. Kabwe n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > protohuman > [noun] anthropolite1778 Neanderthal man1861 caveman1862 man1863 prehistoric man1863 Pithecanthropus1873 Java man1895 Homo erectus1904 Heidelberg1909 Eoanthropus1912 dawn man1913 Neanderthaler1913 Piltdown man1913 Aurignacian1915 Neanderthalian1920 Rhodesian man1921 Boskopoid1926 Peking man1926 Sinanthropus1927 Piltdown1931 Predmostian1931 Minnesota Man1932 Neanderthaloid1934 Steinheim1935 Gigantopithecus1936 Africanthropus1938 Paranthropus1938 Piltdowner1941 Meganthropus1942 Telanthropus1949 Saldanha Man1953 pithecanthropine1955 Nutcracker Man1959 Homo habilis1964 iceman1972 1953 M. R. Drennan in S. Afr. Jrnl. Sci. L. 8 (caption) Side view of the skull-cap of Saldanha Man. 1973 B. J. Williams Evol. & Human Origins xi. 184/2 The later find of the Saldanha skull provided another specimen almost identical to that of Rhodesian Man. 1985 G. T. Nurse et al. Peoples Southern Afr. 42 There are morphological objections to seeing in the Broken Hill and Saldanha rhodesioid remains the ancestral common stock. 1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) ii. 22 The skulls of ‘Broken Hill man’ and ‘Saldanha man’ are so capacious that they have to be classified as Homo sapiens rather than Homo erectus. 2006 S. Afr. Archaeol. Bull. 61 115/2 Ronald Singer..had himself been involved in finding some of the 27 pieces of the Hopefield (Saldanha) hominid skull. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1953 |
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