Cro-Magnon
WordNet

noun


(1)   Extinct human of Upper Paleolithic in Europe
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Etymology


Cro-Magnon is the name of a cave in the Dordogne, France, where the first skeletons were found in 1868.

Noun



  1. The earliest known form of modern humans, Homo sapiens, to be found in Europe, dating from the late Paleolithic.
 
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