Combe-Capellen.
/kɒm(b) kaˈpɛl//kəʊm(b) kaˈpɛl/ Applied attributively to the remains of an early type of man discovered at Combe-Capelle in 1909.
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Combe-Capelle1911
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1911 A. Keith Anc. Types of Man v. 56 While the writer is inclined to agree in provisionally assigning the Combe-Capelle man to the Galley Hill race he believes that further discoveries will show that the Combe-Capelle man belongs to a branch marked with certain negroid features.
1927 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Hunters & Artists v. 66 We may call it provisionally the Combe Capelle, or perhaps better the Predmost type by way of contrast with the Cro-Magnon type.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 40/2 (heading) The Combe Capelle Man. In 1909 Hauser..unearthed a skeleton in the rock-shelter of Combe Capelle..at the very base of a deposit containing Aurignacian implements... The remains are generally agreed to belong to the Cromagnon type,..though differing in some notable respects.
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