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The site is called Abri de Cro-Magnon (Cro-Magnon rock shelter), now recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [37] Abri means "rock shelter" in French, [citation needed] cro means "hole" in Occitan, [38] and Magnon was the landowner. [39] The original human remains were brought to and preserved at the National Museum of Natural History in ...
Cro-Magnon 1 (Musée de l'Homme, Paris) Two views of Cro-Magnon 2 (1875) [7] In 1868, workmen found animal bones, flint tools, and human skulls in the rock shelter. French geologist Louis Lartet was called for excavations, and found the partial skeletons of four prehistoric adults and one infant, along with perforated shells used as ornaments ...
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The site was discovered in 1868: remains of 5 humans (4 adults and a child) were found, dated to about 28,000 years ago. Seen as distinct from the recently discovered Neanderthals and as a precursor of modern man, the term "Cro-Magnon" was soon used to indicate all prehistoric modern men in Europe. [12] La Micoque, in Les Eyzies.
2010-03-31 06:48 Saukkomies 147×130× (277795 bytes) Range map of the [[Cro-Magnon]] man (Homo sapiens) - also known as European Early Modern Humans (or EEMH), showing the extent of their migration into Europe, the western Middle East, and north Africa up to 37,500 years before present (ybp).
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Plate V: Female Cro-Magnon skull in two views. Description Reliquiæ aquitanicæ : being contributions to the archæology and palæontology of Périgord and the adjoining provinces of southern France / by Edouard Lartet and Henry Christy ; edited by Thomas Rupert Jones. 1875.
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