The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cro-magnon \Cro-magnon\ prop. n.
a race of human-like hominids of the Upper Paleolithic in Europe, considered of the same species as modern humans ( Homo sapiens). Their skeletal remains were found mostly in southern France.
a member of the Cro-Magnon race.
Wiktionary
n. The earliest known form of modern humans, ''Homo sapiens'', to be found in Europe, dating from the late Paleolithic.
Wikipedia
Louis Lartet Collection Cro-Magnon ( or ; ) is a common name that has been used to describe the first early modern humans (early Homo sapiens sapiens) that lived in the European Upper Paleolithic. Current scientific literature prefers the term European early modern humans (EEMH), to the term Cro-Magnon, which has no formal taxonomic status, as it refers neither to a species or subspecies nor to an archaeological phase or culture. The earliest known remains of Cro-Magnon-like humans are radiocarbon dated to 43-45,000 years before present that have been discovered in Italy and Britain, with the remains found of those that reached the European Russian Arctic 40,000 years ago.
Cro-Magnons were robustly built and powerful. The body was generally heavy and solid with a strong musculature. The forehead was fairly straight rather than sloping like in Neanderthals, and with only slight browridges. The face was short and wide. The chin was prominent. The brain capacity was about , larger than the average for modern humans.
Cro-Magnon are early modern humans of Europe.
Cro-Magnon may also refer to:
- Cromagnon (band), a 1960s American band
- The Cro-Magnons, a Japanese rock band
- "Cro-Magnon", an episode of the Ally McBeal television series
Usage examples of "cro-magnon".
Renaissance, sharpened and intensified as it has been by its double maxima of climate and science, is able to force a response comparable to that of the Aurignacian Renaissance of twenty-five thousand BC, to wit, the flowering of the Cro-Magnon, the first of the modern men.
Rise up and flee us, I, Habasha, ancient of ancient, Dryopithecine, Cro-Magnon, warrior of Atlantis, poet of Greece, priest and lover, knight of the Round Table, Crusader for Christ, pioneer, and profiteer, command the evil spirits that possess this woman to flee this plane, these dimensions, this human body.
The Ehringsdorf skull possessed the heavy brow ridges, but was high-domed as are the Cro-Magnon skulls.
Thibarak are the people that archaeologists call the Solutreans, who lived in this part of Europe a couple of thousand years after Cro-Magnon times.
Neandertals and Cro-Magnons had different numbers of chromosomes, a complication that commonly arises when species that are close but not quite identical conjoin.
But the absence of chiv and dan coupled with the short, light-colored fur seemed to suggest a variety of Tran as different from the average as a Neanderthal from Cro-Magnon man.
They were creating cave paintings apparently at least as early as the Cro-Magnons in Europe.
Chunks of manganese dioxide - a colouring material later used by Cro-Magnon man - have been found in his caves, some of them worn down on one side as if used as crayons.
His facial bone structure was thick and almost Cro-Magnon, with a powerful-looking brow and a similar no-nonsense jaw.
But what are you suggesting--that _Homo sapiens_ is about to transform himself into Cro-Magnon and Java Man, and ultimately into _Sinanthropus_?
Unk was a well-made man - a light heavyweight, dark-skinned, with poet's lips, with soft brown eyes in the shaded caves of a Cro-Magnon brow ridge.
A parade of clones passed through his imagination like a chart of evolution run in reverse, upright Ivanish Cro-Magnon devolving through missing links into chimpanzee-Miles.
Recognizable multipiece weapons at Cro-Magnon sites include harpoons, spear-throwers, and eventually bows and arrows, the precursors of rifles and other multipiece modern weapons.
Cro-Magnon man, our direct ancestor, should just be replacing Neanderthal man.
Let's go back to the day when the Cro-Magnon drifted into Neanderthaler territory.