Cro-Magnon

Meanings

Proper Noun

• The rock shelter in Les Eyzies, France, where the first Cro-Magnon Man specimens were found.

Noun

• The earliest known form of modern human (Homo sapiens) in Europe, dating from the late Paleolithic.

Related

Similar words

• Cro-Magnon Man, European early modern human

Origin

• From French Cro-Magnon, from Occitan Cròs-Manhon.
• Named after abri de Cro-Magnon, a rock shelter in the commune of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, Dordogne, France, where the first skeletons were found in 1868.