Definition of Cro-magnon

1. Noun. Extinct human of Upper Paleolithic in Europe.

Group relationships: Genus Homo
Generic synonyms: Homo Sapiens

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

Crinoidea
Crioulo
Crip
Crips
Crispin
Crispus
Cristobal
Cristobal Balenciaga
Cristobal Colon
Cristoforo Colombo
Crius
Crixivan
Crna Gora
Cro-Magnon
Cro-magnon (current term)
Croat
Croatia
Croatian
Croatian Sheepdog
Croatian Sheepdogs
Croatians
Croation
Croato-Serbian
Croats
Crocanthemum canadensei
Crocethia
Crocethia alba
Crock Pot
Crockett

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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