Penecontemporary
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Penecontemporary is an adjective meaning That lived or existed at almost the same time (as another/others); nearly contemporary.
Meaning
That lived or existed at almost the same time (as another/others); nearly contemporary.
More Meanings
- That which is penecontemporary, living or existing at almost the same time (as another/others)
Example Sentences
The chalcolithic Corded Ware culture of North-Central and Eastern Europe has been found to display archaeological as well as genetic affinities to the penecontemporary Yamnaya horizon of the Pontic–Caspian Steppe.
However, he found that features more prone to show environmental effects (whether phenotypically plastic or otherwise) separated the tropical Jebel Sahaba skeletons from their penecontemporaries at higher latitudes.
Word Forms
- penecontemporaries
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include contemporary, contemporanean, cotemporaneous, concurrent, cotemporary, coeval.
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