Momentous encounters -- Neanderthal ancestors -- Neanderthals and their world -- The quiet people -- The ten thousandth grandmother -- Great mobility -- The realm of the Lion Man -- Fat, flints, and ...
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Long ago, in what is now northwestern Europe, a Neanderthal Romeo and Cro-Magnon Juliet may have met, fallen in love, and had children--or not. Debate rages as to whether human ancestors migrating out ...
The Cro-Magnon name began after five early modern human skeletons were discovered in a French rock shelter in 1868 and were treated as distinct from Neanderthals and living humans. Early anthropology ...
The term Cro-Magnon is still widely used, but modern anthropology no longer recognizes it as a separate species. This explains how the label originated, how it became tied to outdated racial ideas, ...