| 单词 |
Saldanha |
| 释义 |
Saldanha|sælˈdɑːnə| The name of a bay in western Cape Province, South Africa, used attrib. in Saldanha man, skull, to designate a fossil hominid belonging to an archaic form of Homo sapiens or the fragments of it found at Hopefield by Singer and Jolly in 1953.
1953M. R. Drennan in S. Afr. Jrnl. Sci. L. 8 (caption) Side view of the skull-cap of Saldanha Man. Ibid. 8/2 The Saldanha skull is thus somewhat shorter..than..the Rhodesian skull. 1954Amer. Jrnl. Physical Anthropol. XII. 349 Fluorine tests also revealed that Mesochoerus and Paleoloxodon lived contemporaneously with Saldanha Man. Ibid. 352 The Saldanha skull..at present consists of a fairly complete ‘cap’ or vault. 1959J. D. Clark Prehist. S. Afr. iv. 83 Saldanha Man may..be considered to be representative of the kind of ‘proto-Australoid’ individual who was responsible for the final expression of the Earlier Stone Age cultures in southern Africa at the end of the Middle and beginning of the Upper Pleistocene. 1973B. J. Williams Evolution & Human Origins xi. 184/2 The later find of the Saldanha skull provided another specimen almost identical to that of Rhodesian Man. |
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