单词 | swanscombe |
释义 | Swanscomben. Palaeontology. Used attributively with reference to an extinct hominid known from fossil fragments of a Middle Pleistocene female skull found in a gravel pit near Swanscombe, and dated to between 350,000 and 250,000 years ago.Now usually classified as H. heidelbergensis or as an archaic form of Homo sapiens. ΘΚΠ the world > people > protohuman > [adjective] Cro-Magnon1869 palaeanthropic1890 pithecanthropoid1890 pithecanthropic1897 theriozoic1898 Combe-Capelle1911 Piltdown1912 Predmost1912 Boskop1915 hominid1915 Neanderthalian1920 Tardenoisian1921 pithecanthropine1925 Sinanthropic1931 Solo1932 Florisbad1935 Steinheim1935 Sinanthropoid1937 Swanscombe1937 robust1971 1937 Man 37 33/2 (title) The Swanscombe skull. 1946 F. E. Zeuner Dating Past ix. 298 Swanscombe Man..is a member of the sapiens group. 1973 B. J. Williams Evol. & Human Origins x. 169/2 The bone of the Swanscombe skull is thinner than that of Peking Man but thicker than in modern man's. 2006 C. Stringer Homo Britannicus iii. 123 The climate and environment..looks much like that prevailing when Swanscombe woman lived thousands of years later. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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