Broken Hilln.

Brit.

/ˌbrəʊk(ə)n ˈhɪl/, U.S.

/ˌbroʊk(ə)n ˈhɪl/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Broken Hill.

Etymology: < Broken Hill (now Kabwe, Zambia: see Kabwe n.), the name of a mine and the associated town founded in Rhodesia in 1902 (now in Zambia), where the fossil was discovered in 1921. Compare Rhodesian man n. at Rhodesian adj.² and n.¹ Compounds.Broken Hill was originally named after a geologically similar mine in New South Wales, Australia; the town's name was changed to Kabwe in 1964 when Zambia gained independence.

Palaeontology.

Used attributively with reference to an extinct hominid known from fossil remains found at Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia); = Kabwe n.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Hominidae (humans and ancestors ) > extinct or hypothetical ape-man

missing link1820

apeman1864

Pithecanthropus1873

Oreopithecus1878

Broken Hill1921

dryopithecine1948

Zinjanthropus1959

Orrorin2001

Sahelanthropus2002

1921 W. E. Harris in Illustr. London News 19 Nov. 680 (title) The finding of the Broken Hill skull: the mystery of the great bone cave.

1959 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 89 201 It is necessary to relate the circumstances that led up to this discovery and the relationship of this new site to the ‘Bone Cave’ in which the remains of Broken Hill Man were found.

1995 J. H. Schwartz Skeleton Keys i. 14 (caption) Fossil hominid (Kabwe (‘Broken Hill’) skull, photomicrograph taken using reflected light with Nomarski optics).

2009 T. Holmes & W. Wong Zambia (ed. 2) 17 The skull of Broken Hill Man (now in the British Museum, London), found near the Kabwe lead and zinc mine in 1921, is that of a Neanderthal.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	broken hill
释义	Broken Hilln. Brit. /ˌbrəʊk(ə)n ˈhɪl/, U.S. /ˌbroʊk(ə)n ˈhɪl/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Broken Hill. Etymology: < Broken Hill (now Kabwe, Zambia: see Kabwe n.), the name of a mine and the associated town founded in Rhodesia in 1902 (now in Zambia), where the fossil was discovered in 1921. Compare Rhodesian man n. at Rhodesian adj.² and n.¹ Compounds.Broken Hill was originally named after a geologically similar mine in New South Wales, Australia; the town's name was changed to Kabwe in 1964 when Zambia gained independence. Palaeontology. Used attributively with reference to an extinct hominid known from fossil remains found at Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia); = Kabwe n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Hominidae (humans and ancestors ) > extinct or hypothetical ape-man missing link1820 apeman1864 Pithecanthropus1873 Oreopithecus1878 Broken Hill1921 dryopithecine1948 Zinjanthropus1959 Orrorin2001 Sahelanthropus2002 1921 W. E. Harris in Illustr. London News 19 Nov. 680 (title) The finding of the Broken Hill skull: the mystery of the great bone cave. 1959 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 89 201 It is necessary to relate the circumstances that led up to this discovery and the relationship of this new site to the ‘Bone Cave’ in which the remains of Broken Hill Man were found. 1995 J. H. Schwartz Skeleton Keys i. 14 (caption) Fossil hominid (Kabwe (‘Broken Hill’) skull, photomicrograph taken using reflected light with Nomarski optics). 2009 T. Holmes & W. Wong Zambia (ed. 2) 17 The skull of Broken Hill Man (now in the British Museum, London), found near the Kabwe lead and zinc mine in 1921, is that of a Neanderthal. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1921
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