单词 | florisbad |
释义 | Florisbadn. Palaeontology. attributive. Designating (part of) an extinct hominid known from a fossil cranium found at Florisbad, South Africa, now dated to about 260,000 years ago.Originally named as Homo helmei, the Florisbad fossil is now generally regarded as an archaic form of H. sapiens. ΘΚΠ the world > people > protohuman > [adjective] Cro-Magnon1869 palaeanthropic1890 pithecanthropoid1890 pithecanthropic1897 theriozoic1898 Combe-Capelle1911 Piltdown1912 Predmost1912 Boskop1915 hominid1915 Neanderthalian1920 Tardenoisian1921 pithecanthropine1925 Sinanthropic1931 Solo1932 Florisbad1935 Steinheim1935 Sinanthropoid1937 Swanscombe1937 robust1971 1935 J. F. Dreyer in Proc. Sect. Sci. Kon. Akad. Wetensch. Amsterdam 38 124 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. 1959 J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern Afr. ii. 27 In 1932 Professor Dreyer found the Florisbad skull during excavations in the mineral spring there. 2002 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 357 368/2 The Florisbad cranium—an archaic H. sapiens—actually dates from ca. 260 kyr rather than the former estimate of ca. 40 kyr. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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