cro-magnon

     

Cro-Magnon (IPA: [kʀomaɲɔ̃] or anglicise IPA: /kɹəʊˈmægnən/) is one of the main types of Homo sapiens of the European Upper Paleolithic. It is named after the cave of Crô-Magnon in southwest France, where the first specimen was found.

Trivia about cro-magnon

  • A fossil found in Portugal may have been the child of Neanderthals & these early modern humans
  • The first skeletons of this early human were discovered in a French cave in 1868
  • Named for an area in France, these humans of 40,000 to 10,000 years ago get rave reviews for their art
  • In 1868 Louis Lartet dug up the first skeletons of this prehistoric man in a cave in Les Eyzies in southwest France