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Florisbad|ˈflɒrɪsbæd|
The name of a village near Bloemfontein, South Africa, applied attrib. to (the remains of) a primitive hominid discovered there.
1935J. F. Dreyer in Proc. Sect. Sci. Kon. Akad. Wetensch. Amsterdam XXXVIII. 124 Until..the classification of the Hominidae is revised and modernised, the status of the Florisbad Man will be most suitably expressed by giving it the value of a sub-genus and calling it: Homo (Africanthropus) helmei. 1940Jrnl. R. Anthrop. Inst. 18 The Florisbad skull. 1948A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (ed. 2) iii. 100 The fossil form nearest to Rhodesian man..is the Florisbad skull. Ibid. 107 The fragmentary Florisbad skull..is probably the nearest to being Palaeoanthropic in type among the more recent South African skeletons. 1959J. D. Clark Prehist. S. Afr. ii. 27 In 1932 Professor Dreyer found the Florisbad skull during excavations in the mineral spring there. Ibid. iv. 87 At the time that Florisbad Man was living at the site the vegetation must have been very like that of the Karoo and Middleveld today. |