Meanings
Proto-Mediterranean1
alternative Protomediterranean · alternative proto-Mediterranean
- not comparableanthropologyOf a specific human cranial type, associated with populations in the Mediterranean region during the Mesolithic period.
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It is clear, from what we have said, that the greatest purity of the Leucodermic type is to be found among the Nordics; because only the southern branch, on its road through Mediterranean Africa or in the Mediterranean islands themselves, met that strongly hybrid population which may be called Proto-Mediterranean, which must have been derived from the crossing of the Crô-Magnon with the Combe-Capelle and the Negroids of Grimaldi.
1921, Prof. V. Giuffrida-Ruggeri, “Europe: Ethnology, The Hybrid Origin of the Mediterraneans”, in Man, A Monthly Record of Anthropological Science, volumes 20-21, page 181
proto-Mediterranean2
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of Proto-Mediterranean.
Origin
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