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Cro-Magnon Aurignacian-Gravettian sculpture Magdalenian cave painting of a bison Prehistoric cave painting in Lascaux Cave, France, showing a large, dark-outlined animal resembling an aurochs or bison, with yellow and brown shading on a rock surface.
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Cro-Magnon
Cro-Magnon Artist's reconstruction of a Cro-Magnon, an early modern human in Europe.

Cro-Magnon

prehistoric human
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Cro-Magnon, population of early Homo sapiens dating from the Upper Paleolithic Period (c. 40,000 to c. 10,000 years ago) in Europe. In 1868, in a shallow cave at Cro-Magnon near the town of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac in the Dordogne region of southwestern France, a number of obviously ancient human skeletons were found. The cave was investigated by the French geologist Édouard Lartet, who uncovered five archaeological layers. The human bones found in the topmost layer proved...

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