Proto-Mediterranean

English Alternative forms en Protomediterranean proto-Mediterranean Etymology From en proto Mediterranean. Adjective - en anthropology archaeology Of a specific human cranial type, associated with populations in the Mediterranean region during the Mesolithic period. en 1921 Prof. V. Giuffrida-Ruggeri Europe: Ethnology, The Hybrid Origin of the Mediterraneans Man, A Monthly Record of Anthropological Science https://www.google.com/books/edition/Man/WKxCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22which+may+be+called+Proto-Mediterranean,+which+must+have+been+derived+from%22&pg=RA2-PA181&printsec=frontcover 20-21 181 It is clear, from what we have said, that the greatest purity of the Leucodermic type is to be found among the Nordics; because only the southern branch, on its road through Mediterranean Africa or in the Mediterranean islands themselves, met that strongly hybrid population which may be called Proto-Mediterranean, which must have been derived from the crossing of the Crô-Magnon with the Combe-Capelle and the Negroids of Grimaldi.