We've all believed things about Cro-Magnons, early European humans, that aren't true. For decades, ideas about how they lived, thought, and interacted have been full of mistakes. History and pop ...

Momentous encounters -- Neanderthal ancestors -- Neanderthals and their world -- The quiet people -- The ten thousandth grandmother -- Great mobility -- The realm of the Lion Man -- Fat, flints, and ...

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The name Cro-Magnon originated with early modern human remains discovered in France in 1868, but it later became deeply entangled with racial anthropology and eugenics. Early researchers promoted ...

Long ago, in what is now northwestern Europe, a Neanderthal Romeo and Cro-Magnon Juliet may have met, fallen in love, and had children--or not. Debate rages as to whether human ancestors migrating out ...