Of or relating to the first group of modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) to inhabit Europe, dated to between 35,000 and 24,000 years ago in the…

Of, relating to, or designating extinct forms of human or hominid, known only from fossil remains. Cf. neanthropic, adj. 2, palanthropic, adj.

= pithecanthropic, adj.

Of, relating to, or resembling Pithecanthropus; (figurative) apelike, primitive, clumsy.

of or belonging to a period in human history anterior to the domestication of animals.

Applied attributively to the remains of an early type of man discovered at Combe-Capelle in 1909.

Designating or relating to an alleged fossil skull whose remains were claimed in 1912 to have been found at Piltdown in Sussex, England, or the…

Of, relating to, or designating a race of Upper Palaeolithic man known from remains discovered at Predmost (Předmostí) in Moravia, Czech Republic…

In attributive use with man, race, etc.: of or belonging to the early type of man indicated by the skull of the late Pleistocene period found at…

Of, relating to, or characteristic of hominids in the traditional sense (sense A. 1).

= Neanderthal, adj. 1.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling the mesolithic culture remains of which were first discovered in Tardenois, dept. of Aisne, France. Also absol.…

= pithecanthropic, adj.

= Sinanthropoid adj.

Used attributively with reference to an extinct hominid known from fossil craniums discovered near the village of Ngandong in the valley of the…

attributive. Designating (part of) an extinct hominid known from a fossil cranium found at Florisbad, South Africa, now dated to about 260,000…

Used attributively with reference to an extinct hominid known from a Middle Pleistocene fossil skull found close to the River Murr at Steinheim…

characteristic of or resembling the genus Sinanthropus.

Used attributively with reference to an extinct hominid known from fossil fragments of a Middle Pleistocene female skull found in a gravel pit…

Physical Anthropology. A robust fossil hominid; spec. any of three australopithecines (Australopithecus robustus, A. aethiopicus, and A. boisei)…