Cro-Magnon
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Cro-Magnons or European early modern humans were the first early modern humans found in Europe and Siberia, continuously occupying the continent possibly from as early as 56,800 years ago. They intera
Skull of Cro-Magnon 1
Bohunician scrapers in the Moravian Museum, Czech Republic
Abri de Cro-Magnon
1916 reconstruction of Cro-Magnon 1
Cro-Magnon rock shelter
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Cro-Magnon is an Aurignacian site, located in a rock shelter in the commune of Les Eyzies, Dordogne, southwestern France.
Cro-Magnon
…or were born into high status. The name "Cro-Magnon" comes from the five skeletons discovered by French palaeontologist Louis Lartet in 1868 at the Cro-Magnon rock shelter, Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France, after the area was accidentally discovered while a road was constructed for a railway station. Remains of Palaeolithic…
Cro-Magnon rock shelter; a commemorative marble plaque to the right of the image's center-top reads, "Abri de Cro-Magnon: ici furent découverts en 1868 les hommes de Cro-Magnon par François Berthoumeyrou" ("Shelter of Cro-Magnon: Here in 1868 Cro-Magnon men were discovered by François Berthoumeyrou")
Cro-Magnon 1 (Musée de l'Homme, Paris)
Two views of Cro-Magnon 2 (1875)