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Cro-Magnon (iou)



Cro-Magnon adjective & noun. M19.
[A hill near Les Eyzies, Dordogne department, France, containing a cave in which the skeletons were found.]
A. adjective. Pertaining to or designating an individual of the type represented by certain skeletons found in 1868 in upper palaeolithic deposits, belonging to tall people with long skulls and short wide faces who were of physically modern type; pertaining to or designating any example of physically modern man of the early upper palaeolithic of western Europe. M19.
b. noun. A Cro-Magnon man. M20.