Grimaldi man

Japanese: グリマルディ人 - ぐりまるでぃじん(英語表記)Grimaldi man
Grimaldi man

A fossil human of the latest human stage. Excavated in 1901 from the Grimaldi site in Italy, facing the Mediterranean Sea near the French border. Numerous Cro-Magnon bones were discovered in four caves at the site, along with Late Paleolithic tools, and two bones with different morphology from Cro-Magnon bones were excavated from one of them, the Grotte des Enfants (Cave of Children). These belonged to a young male and an adult female, and both had a strong prognathism, a wide nose and face, and a significantly long head, so they were said to resemble today's black people and were called Negroid or Grimaldi races. At the time, there was interest in the fact that such a human species had coexisted with Cro-Magnons on the European continent, but today it is believed to have been a misidentification caused by a mistake in assembling the skull fragments.

[Shise Kahara]

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Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

新人段階の化石人類。フランス国境に近い、地中海に面したイタリア領内のグリマルディ遺跡から1901年に出土。同遺跡の四つの洞穴から多数のクロマニョン人骨が後期旧石器を伴って発見されていたが、そのなかの一つグロッテ・デザンファン(小児洞)とよばれる洞穴から、クロマニョン人骨とは形態の異なる2個体の人骨が出土した。これらは青年男子と成人女子のもので、ともに突顎(とつがく)が強く、鼻や顔面が幅広く、著しい長頭であることから、今日の黒人に似ているとされ、ネグロイド型、もしくはグリマルディ人種とよばれた。当時、このような人類がヨーロッパ大陸にクロマニョン人と共存したことに関心が抱かれたが、今日では、頭骨破片を組み立てる際の失敗による誤認と考えられている。

[香原志勢]

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