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Cro-Magnon|krəʊˈmænjɔ̃, krəʊˈmægnən|
Also Cromagnon.
[The name of a hill of Cretaceous limestone in the Dordogne department of France in a cave at the base of which skeletons of Homo sapiens were found in 1868 among deposits of Upper Palæolithic age; it had previously been supposed that modern man did not exist in Palæolithic times.]
Used, chiefly attrib., to designate a group of mankind characterized by a long low skull, a wide face, and wide orbits having upper and lower borders close to one another and almost parallel; the stature is moderate or tall.
The group persisted in Mesolithic and Neolithic times, and some authorities consider that it survived in the Guanches of the Canary Islands. Similar skeletal features can be detected in certain modern European and north African peoples.
1869P. Broca in Lartet & Christy Reliq. Aquit. (1875) ix. 99 The general characters of the Cro-Magnon race. 1869A. de Quatrefages Ibid. 124 The Cro-Magnon skulls introduce new elements into the question of European origins. 1874Leisure Hour 31 Oct. 697 Outline of Cro-Magnon skull as seen in front. 1882Amer. Antiquarian Apr.–July 242 Cromagnon skulls in Bavaria. 1912R. Munro Palæolithic Man 200 All the skeletons of the Cro-Magnon type found in the Grimaldi caves. 1927Haldane & Huxley Anim. Biol. xiii. 331 Cromagnon man. 1934Discovery Mar. 79/2 All comparisons between individual moderns and individual Greeks or Cro-Magnons, are beside the mark in a discussion of the meaning of human progress as a whole. 1939R. Campbell Flowering Rifle ii. 53 To sink these new Cromagnons out of sight. |