Proto-Mediterranean

adjective

Of a specific human cranial type, associated with populations in the Mediterranean region during the Mesolithic period.

Meanings

Proto-Mediterranean1

adjectiveProto-Mediterranean (not comparable)

alternative Protomediterranean · alternative proto-Mediterranean

  1. not comparableanthropologyOf a specific human cranial type, associated with populations in the Mediterranean region during the Mesolithic period.
    1 more example

    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

adjectiveproto-Mediterranean (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of Proto-Mediterranean.

Origin

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