Proto-Mediterranean

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From proto- +‎ Mediterranean.

Adjective

Proto-Mediterranean (not comparable)

  1. (anthropology, archaeology) Of a specific human cranial type, associated with populations in the Mediterranean region during the Mesolithic period.
    • 1921, Prof. V. Giuffrida-Ruggeri, “Europe: Ethnology, The Hybrid Origin of the Mediterraneans”, in Man, A Monthly Record of Anthropological Science‎[1], volumes 20-21, page 181:
      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.
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