One of the oldest human skulls ever found, belonging to "Cro-Magnon 1," looked different than the skulls of other early humans. The middle-aged man, who lived 28,000 years ago, had a big dip in his ...

Indeed the Cro-Magnons were explorers, shamen and visionaries throughout the Ice Ages. The name Cro-Magnon was derived from anthropologist Louis Lartet's discovery in 1868 of a burial site of five ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Light brown plastic cast cranium and ...

About 5,600 years ago, a 20-year-old woman was buried with a tiny baby resting on her chest, a sad clue that she likely died in childbirth during the Neolithic. This woman and six other ancient ...

The Homo sapiens living in the Upper Palaeolithic that were marked as Cro-Magnons are now referred to as either Anatomically Modern Humans or Early Modern Humans. On some occasions they are being ...

Cro Magnon has long been misunderstood, and this breakdown clarifies why the label is outdated and what modern anthropology ...

The hunting prowess of the Neanderthal matched those who supplanted them, the Cro-Magnon, say researchers who have examined ungulate teeth and bones found in a cave in which both types of hominids ...