Kabwe 1

[ kahb-wey wuhn ]

/ ˈkɑb weɪ ˈwʌn /

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noun

the cranial remains of the first early human to have been discovered in Africa, exhibiting features similar to Homo erectus but having a larger brain, as of a modern human: found at Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia), in 1921, it was originally called Rhodesian man and assigned to a new species, H. rhodesiensis, but is now generally accepted as a specimen of H. heidelbergensis.

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Also called Bro·ken Hill skull .

Origin of Kabwe 1

First recorded in 1970–75

Words nearby Kabwe 1

kabob, ka-boom, kabuki, Kabul, Kabwe, Kabwe 1, Kabyle, kachang puteh, kachcha, Kachera, kachina