Florisbad, noun

/ˈflɒrɪsbæd//ˈflʊərəsbat/
The name of a small town near Bloemfontein, in the Orange Free State (now Free State), applied attributively to (the remains of) a primitive hominid discovered there (OED).
1935 J.F. Dreyer in Proc. Sect. Sci. Kon. Akad. Wetensch. Amsterdam XXXVIII. 124Until..the classification of the Hominidae is revised and modernised, the status of the Florisbad Man will be most suitably expressed by giving it the value of a sub-genus and calling it: Homo (Africanthropus) helmei.
1940 R.A. Dart in Jrnl of R. Anthrop. Inst. Vol.70 No.1, 18The Florisbad skull.
1959 J.D. Clark Prehist. of S. Afr. 27In 1932 Professor Dreyer found the Florisbad skull during excavations in the mineral spring there.
1959 J.D. Clark Prehist. of S. Afr. 87At the time that Florisbad Man was living at the site the vegetation must have been very like that of the Karoo and Middleveld today.
1963 C.S. Coon Origin of Races 636Two principal theories have been advanced to explain the origin of the Capoids...The second is that they evolved from local ancestors, including not only Saldanha Bay man and Broken Hill man, but also Florisbad.
1985 S. Afr. Panorama Sept. 2Professor Sampson is holding..Acheulian hand-axe, and Florisbad and Zeekoegat spear points.
1985 G.T. Nurse et al. Peoples of Sn Afr. 43The Florisbad skull can also be seen as a link between ‘large-headed Khoisan’ and ‘Rhodesian’ man.
The name of a small town near Bloemfontein, in the Orange Free State (now Free State), applied attributively to (the remains of) a primitive hominid discovered there (OED).
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