[f. ANTHROPO- + Gr. λίθος stone: see -LITE.] A petrified man; a fossil ascribed to the human species.
1848. trans. Richter’s Levana, 43. The ideal man comes upon the earth as an anthropolithe (a petrified man).
1862. G. Kearley, Links in Chain, x. 225. A veritable anthropolite, the petrified remains of one of the accursed race that was swept away by the flood.
