Cro-Magnon
Ice Age European
Cro-Magnon refers to early modern humans who lived in Europe during the late Ice Age, roughly 40,000 to 10,000 years ago.
Named for a rock shelter in southwestern France where remains were first discovered.
The term often distinguishes these anatomically modern humans from Neanderthals, their evolutionary cousins.
In casual use, calling someone a Cro-Magnon suggests they're primitive or brutish: His table manners are pure Cro-Magnon.
Scientific name for humans
- NeanderthalExtinct archaic human species
- hominidBipedal primate family
- skullHead's bone casing
- fossilPreserved ancient organism
Dordogne · skeleton · cranium · robust · anatomy · migration · Out of Africa · interbreeding
Prehistoric art on stone
- LascauxPaleolithic painted cavern
- AltamiraSpanish cave with paintings
- Ice AgeExtended global freeze
- PaleolithicEarliest archaeological era
stone tools · mammoth · hunter-gatherer · rock shelter · spear · flint · ochre · bone needle
In earliest form
- cavemanPrehistoric cave-dwelling human
- unsophisticatedLacking refinement or complexity
- brutishCruel and uncivilized
- uncivilizedLacking social graces
backward · troglodyte · Neolithic · archaic · outdated
Homo sapiens
Scientific name for humans
- NeanderthalExtinct archaic human species
- hominidBipedal primate family
- skullHead's bone casing
fossil · Dordogne · skeleton · cranium · robust · anatomy · migration · Out of Africa · interbreeding · coexistence
cave painting
Prehistoric art on stone
Paleolithic · stone tools · mammoth · hunter-gatherer · rock shelter · spear · flint · ochre · bone needle · prehistoric art
primitive
In earliest form
- cavemanPrehistoric cave-dwelling human
- unsophisticatedLacking refinement or complexity
- brutishCruel and uncivilized
uncivilized · backward · troglodyte · Neolithic · archaic · outdated
- humanityhuman, human being, humans, people, mankind
- prehistorystone tools, Neolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen
- Prehistoriccave dwellers, Flintstones, Ice Age, cave paintings, woolly mammoths
- prehistoric humanscaveman, cave dwellers, cave dweller, Neanderthal, Neanderthals
- archaeologyexcavation, dig site, archaeologist, dig, archaeological digs
- Stone Agecave painting, paleolithic, hand ax, handaxes, hand axe
Cro-MagnonNeanderthal
Extinct archaic human species
Homo erectus · Australopithecus · Homo heidelbergensis · Ardipithecus · modern human