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Predmost, a.|ˈprɛdməʊst|
Also Předmost |ˈpʒɛdmɒst|.
[Anglicized form of the placename Předmost near Brno (Brünn), in Moravia, Czechoslovakia.]
Of, connected with, or relating to human or other remains, artefacts, etc., that evidence a Combe Capelle type of Homo sapiens of Upper Palæolithic culture, first excavated at Předmost between 1882 and 1894, and later at other sites, esp. in Central Europe and round the eastern Mediterranean; also ellipt. as n. Hence Predˈmostian.
1916H. F. Osborn Men Old Stone Age iii. 257 Such very primitive forms as the Brünn or Předmost race of Upper Palæolithic times. Ibid. iv. 349 All these sculptures of the mammoth have in common the indication of a very small ear—similar to that in the Předmost model. 1921M. C. Burkitt Prehistory x. 130 The male statuette of Brünn, if it be of the age of Předmost and not more ancient, appears to be a prolongation of the Aurignacian artistic technique. 1927Peake & Fleure Hunters & Artists v. 67 We may call it provisionally the Combe Capelle, or perhaps better the Predmost type by way of contrast with the Cro-Magnon type. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Apr. 317/2 Sir Arthur Keith suggests that both the Cro-Magnons and the Predmostians are early Caucasians hailing ultimately from South-Western Asia. 1939V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 3) i. 3 Mesolithic groups appear in general isolated and poorly equipped in contrast to Magdalenians or Předmostians. 1957M. Bullock tr. Boule & Vallois's Fossil Men viii. 278 The long discussion of which these Predmost Men have been the object; their affinities are, above all, with the great Cro-Magnon race. 1960W. Howells Mankind in Making xiv. 210 There you have Homo sapiens. And there you have the men of the present, and the men of the Upper Paleolithic. Some of the latter, like the Předmost skulls, had rather strong brow ridges. 1977Brace & Montagu Human Evol. ix. 351 (caption) Předmost skull. Upper Paleolithic of Czechoslovakia. |