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Swanscombe|ˈswɒnzkəm|
The name of a village in north-west Kent, used attrib. to designate a Middle Pleistocene fossil hominid, an early type of Homo sapiens, known from parts of a skull found in a gravel pit near Swanscombe in 1935 and subsequent years. Also Swanscombe skull.
1938W. LeG. Clark in Jrnl. R. Anthropol. Inst. LXVIII. 58 (title) General features of the Swanscombe skull bones. 1940Nature 13 July 51/2 Swanscombe man appears..in gravels heralding the third glacial stage. 1946F. E. Zeuner Dating Past viii. 279 The view..is beginning to be held generally, and especially on the strength of the Swanscombe skull, that H[omo] sapiens evolved during the Penultimate Interglacial. Ibid. ix. 298 Swanscombe Man..is a member of the sapiens group. 1962Listener 22 Nov. 878/2 For those who think Pleistocene is a substance, Mary Cathcart Boxer's Mankind in the Making..will prove a model of clarity that..sorts the jumble of prehistory in a manner that even those as thick of skull as Swanscombe Woman can grasp. 1973B. J. Williams Evolution & 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. 1975J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles i. 1 Many dramatic environmental changes separate Swanscombe Man by more than 150,000 years from the development and eventual spread into Britain of farming communities. |