Proto-mediterranean
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Of a specific human cranial type, associated with populations in the Mediterranean region during the Mesolithic period. not-comparable
"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."
- 2 Alternative form of Proto-Mediterranean. alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From proto- + Mediterranean.
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