Tepexpán man

noun

Te·​pex·​pán man

¦tepə¦spän-

: an extinct man that is known from a fossilized skeleton found in the Valley of Mexico and attributed to the late Pleistocene and that was probably coeval with Folsom man

Word History

Etymology

from Tepexpán, village of central Mexico

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