Neanderthal Synonyms

nē-ăndər-thôl, -tôl, nā-ändər-täl
Designating or of a widespread form of early human being (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) of the Upper Pleistocene
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. Neanderthalian
  2. neandertal
Extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. neanderthal man
  2. Neandertal man
  3. neandertal
  4. Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. boorish
  2. loutish
  3. neandertal
  4. oafish
  5. swinish

Words Related to Neanderthal

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. mousterian
  2. hominid
  3. cro-magnon
  4. homo sapiens
  5. australopithecine
  6. archaeopteryx
  7. homo

Neanderthal Sentence Examples

  • The now generally accepted view is that the Neanderthal skull represents the oldest known dolichocephalic race of Europe.

  • Here in 1856 were discovered in a Quaternary bed in the Feldhofen Cave human remains which have been referred to a type commonly called Neanderthal Man.

  • The epoch was characterized by cold wet climate, by the supposed existence of Man of the Olom type, that is, nearly as dolichocephalous as the Neanderthal type, but with superciliary ridges flat, and frontal bones high, and by the occurrence of the musk-ox, the horse, the cave-bear, Rhinoceros tichorhinus and the mammoth.

  • We have also found a spiral fracture on what is possibly a deer bone, opened by a Neanderthal to extract the marrow.

  • The first (fig.3) is the famous Neanderthal skull from near Dusseldorf, described by Schaafhausen in Miller's Archiv, 1858; Huxley in Lyell, Antiquity of Man, p. 86, and in Man's Place in Nature.

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