AtlasFranceLes EyziesOne word pinned hereLes Eyzies44.9367°N 1.0181°E · Q57506528One English word in this atlas traces back to Les Eyzies. It sits in France.ShareAll of France Pinned hereCro-Magnonnoun · 1860sWell attestedEurope's first modern humans are named for a rock shelter behind a village hotel.Railway workers exposed the shelter at Les Eyzies in the Dordogne in 1868, and Louis Lartet excavated the skeletons that carried the site's name into every textbook; cro is local dialect for a hollow or cave. Specialists now prefer early modern human, because the old label lumped together populations spread across tens of thousands of years.Named from the placeRead →Nearest pinsGravettianLa Gravette, France27 kmlimousineLimoges, France102 kmcognacCognac, France135 kmgasconadeGascony, France159 km