Well attestedNamed from the place
Cro-Magnon
noun · first attested 1860s
Europe's first modern humans are named for a rock shelter behind a village hotel.
An early modern human of Ice Age Europe, known from Upper Paleolithic skeletons and the culture associated with them.
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- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1860s
- Part of speech
- noun
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Les Eyzies
- In English
Cro-Magnon
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.
France
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