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单词 nariokotome
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Nariokotomen.

Brit. /ˌnarɪəʊkəˈtəʊmi/, U.S. /ˌnɛriˌoʊkəˈtoʊmi/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Nariokotome.
Etymology: < Nariokotome (Turkana Naryokotome , lit. ‘(place) by the black elephants’), the name of a place near Lake Turkana, in the Turkana District of the Rift Valley province of western Kenya, where the skeleton was found. Compare slightly earlier Turkana n. 3.
Palaeontology.
attributive. = Turkana n. 3; esp. in Nariokotome boy.
ΚΠ
1985 Nature 5 Sept. 29/2 The erectus group that the Nariokotome boy represents was thus standing, fully upright, on the threshold of what was probably the first great dispersal in human history.
1996 W. Noble & I. Davidson Human Evol. Lang. & Mind vii. 208 Aside from the Nariokotome skeleton there have been hardly any other hominid remains, before Neanderthals, where different anatomical elements can be easily attributed to the same skeleton.
2001 I. Tattersall & J. H. Schwartz Extinct humans v. 143/1 The equivalent tooth in the Nariokotome youth is lower-crowned.
2005 Rev. Archaeol. 26 i. 8/2 These are later than the 1,650,000-year-old Nariokotome juvenile skeleton of early H. erectus or ergaster.
2007 E. Sarmiento in E. Sarmiento et al. Last Human 147/2 (caption) A young Homo ergaster, Nariokotome Boy, rejoices at seeing the familiar faces of his family.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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