Steinheim man

noun

Stein·​heim man

ˈs(h)tīnˌhīm-

: a Lower Paleolithic Neanderthaloid man having some neanthropic characteristics and known from a skull found associated with Acheulean artifacts in western Germany

Word History

Etymology

from Steinheim am Murr, town of western Germany

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