Why Don We Call Them Cro-Magnon Anymore?
What Are Cro-Magnons? Cro-Magnon is the informal word once used by scientists to refer to the people who were living alongside Neanderthals at the end of the last ice age (ca. 35,000-10,000 years ago). They were given the name ‘Cro-Magnon‘ because in 1868, parts of five skeletons were discovered in the rockshelter of that name, located in the famous Dordogne Valley of France. Scientists compared these skeletons to Neanderthal skeletons which had earlier been found in similarly dated sites such as Paviland, Wales; and a little later at Combe Capelle and
