We've all believed things about Cro-Magnons, early European humans, that aren't true. For decades, ideas about how they lived, thought, and interacted have been full of mistakes. History and pop ...
Momentous encounters -- Neanderthal ancestors -- Neanderthals and their world -- The quiet people -- The ten thousandth grandmother -- Great mobility -- The realm of the Lion Man -- Fat, flints, and ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Red/brown plaster cast mandible of ...
Long ago, in what is now northwestern Europe, a Neanderthal Romeo and Cro-Magnon Juliet may have met, fallen in love, and had children--or not. Debate rages as to whether human ancestors migrating out ...
The Cro-Magnon name began after five early modern human skeletons were discovered in a French rock shelter in 1868 and were treated as distinct from Neanderthals and living humans. Early anthropology ...
Imagine yourself cutting through a hillside of rock in order to lay down railroad tracks for a locomotive that would be state-of-the-art, when your tools actually cut right into a cave containing the ...