Kanamn.

Brit.

/kəˈnɑːm/, U.S.

/kəˈnɑm/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Kanam.

Etymology: < Kanam (Luo Kanam, literally‘place by the lake’), the name of a locality in Kenya, on the south shore of the Kavirondo gulf of Lake Victoria, where the fossil was found in 1932.

Palaeontology.

Used attributively with reference to an extinct hominid known from a fossil jaw found at West Kanam on L. S. B. Leakey's excavation, formerly thought to be of Middle Pleistocene date but later shown to be a Late Pleistocene fossil in a secondary deposit.Formerly named Homo kanamensis.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > dead body > [adjective] > fossil found in specific location

Trinil1896

Talgai boy1918

Taung1925

Kanam1932

1932 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 31 332 The presumption is therefore that Kanam man is older than Oldoway man.

1935 L. S. B. Leakey Stone Age Races Kenya ii. 11 Further examination of the Kanam mandible has led me to separate it from the species Homo sapiens and to give it a new specific name Homo kanamensis.

1965 M. H. Day Guide to Fossil Man 147 Later Keith said that the small front teeth of the Kanam jaw suggested a closer relationship to the australopithecines than to modern man.

2007 Oral Surg., Oral Med. (Electronic ed.) 103 e20/2 The Kanam mandible has retained its calcium phosphate bone composition.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	kanam
释义	Kanamn. Brit. /kəˈnɑːm/, U.S. /kəˈnɑm/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Kanam. Etymology: < Kanam (Luo Kanam, literally‘place by the lake’), the name of a locality in Kenya, on the south shore of the Kavirondo gulf of Lake Victoria, where the fossil was found in 1932. Palaeontology. Used attributively with reference to an extinct hominid known from a fossil jaw found at West Kanam on L. S. B. Leakey's excavation, formerly thought to be of Middle Pleistocene date but later shown to be a Late Pleistocene fossil in a secondary deposit.Formerly named Homo kanamensis. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > dead body > [adjective] > fossil found in specific location Trinil1896 Talgai boy1918 Taung1925 Kanam1932 1932 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 31 332 The presumption is therefore that Kanam man is older than Oldoway man. 1935 L. S. B. Leakey Stone Age Races Kenya ii. 11 Further examination of the Kanam mandible has led me to separate it from the species Homo sapiens and to give it a new specific name Homo kanamensis. 1965 M. H. Day Guide to Fossil Man 147 Later Keith said that the small front teeth of the Kanam jaw suggested a closer relationship to the australopithecines than to modern man. 2007 Oral Surg., Oral Med. (Electronic ed.) 103 e20/2 The Kanam mandible has retained its calcium phosphate bone composition. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1932
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