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Definition of Cro-Magnon
1. Noun. Extinct human of Upper Paleolithic in Europe.
Definition of Cro-Magnon
1. Noun. The earliest known form of modern humans, ''Homo sapiens'', to be found in Europe, dating from the late Paleolithic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cro-Magnon
Literary usage of Cro-Magnon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In the structure of the cranium the Cro-Magnon race on the whole resembled the
modern European. Local variations are recognizable. It is not impossible that ..."
2. The Human Species by Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1890)
"THE Cro-Magnon RACE. L IN the year 1858, in the valley of the ... The Cro-Magnon
bones thus became classic almost within a day of their discovery ; and M. ..."
3. Cave Hunting: Researches on the Evidence of Caves Respecting the Early by William Boyd Dawkins (1874)
"The human skeletons in the cave of Cro-Magnon, at Les Eyzies, ... Section across
the Valley of the Vezere, aud through the rock of Cro-Magnon. ..."
4. Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and Art by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1915)
"The present people of Dordogne agree with but one other type of men known to
anthropologists, namely, the ancient Cro-Magnon race. ..."
5. Ethnology by Augustus Henry Keane (1896)
"... race—which spread thence east to Asia and north to Europe—The Cro-Magnon and
other early European races affiliated to the fair Berbers ..."
6. Indian Tribes of Eastern Peru by William Curtis Farabee (1922)
"In comparison with the most complete Cro-Magnon under our observation (the ...
The arc between these points measured 130 mm. alike for Cro-Magnon I and the ..."
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