Does Cro-Magnon Man Exit?
The disappearance of the Cro-Magnon man is as mysterious as the Neanderthal man. A few observations could be studied: Perhaps as complex as the question of origin is that of the duration of Cro-Magnon culture and the disappearance of Cro-Magnon man. The later question is, in a sense, more a matter of genetics than of descriptive anthropology, since it is assumed that the Cro-Magnon race or type was simply absorbed into later European population.72 It is simultaneously suggested that the disappearance of Cro-Magnon man is akin to Neanderthal man.73 The question of the relation of Cro-Magnon man to earlier forms of Homo sapiens is still unclear… (Similarly) the question of the relationship of Cro-Magnon peoples to the distinctive Neanderthal peoples who preceded Cro-Magnon man in Europe, is still to be settled.74 This is a clear indication that it was a different species altogether. However, if it is established through further research that the Cro-Magnon man does not exist today and
