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    How did the name Cro-Magnon originate?

    Question #17446. Asked by JR. (Mar 18 02 12:41 PM)


    Jeeves

    		It was the name of the cave in which the remains were found. The cave is in the Dordogne, France.

    Mar 18 02, 1:45 PM
    Barrow boy

    		It was in caves at a place named Cro-Magnon in south west France that the fossilised skeletons of Cro-Magnon man were found in 1868. For limited info see http://spidey.sfusd.edu/schwww/sch773/review/talbert.html or for more detail see http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1381/hominids2.html

    Mar 18 02, 1:52 PM
    Son of The Household Cavalry

    		Just to add a bit more info - The Cro-Magnon (Homo sapiens sapiens), c. 100,000(?) years ago, completely resembled modern humans. Although usage of the term Cro-Magnon strictly applies only to those who lived in southwestern France, it has been used by many to generally describe Homo sapiens sapiens that lived everywhere else. Their skeletons were discovered in a rock shelter in the Cro-Magnon valley, Lez Eyzies, southwestern France, in 1868.

    Mar 19 02, 3:28 AM

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