Tautavel man

[ taw-tuh-vel ]

noun

1. the skeletal remains of Homo erectus of the middle Pleistocene Epoch found in a cave in the French Pyrenees in the 1960s.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Tautavel man¹

After Tautavel, village in the eastern French Pyrenees

Example Sentences

There have been excavations at the cave for about 50 years and it's famous for the discovery of 450,000 human skull in the early 1970s, known by scientists as the "Tautavel Man."

From US News

It predates by 100,000 years the famous remains of Tautavel Man, a 20-year-old prehistoric hunter and ancestor of Neanderthal Man who was discovered at the site in 1971 and whose remains dated back about 450,000 years.

From The Guardian

Anderson Mannequin of a Tautavel Man—would he have had known how to make fire?

From Slate