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Meaning of cromagnon



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Cro-Magnon is incorrectly written, and should be written as "Cro-Magnon" being its meaning:
Cro-Magnon = Cro-MagnonHombre of Cro-Magnon is the name with which it is often designate the human type corresponding to certain fossils of Homo sapiens, especially those associated with the caves of Europe in which cave paintings were found. Tends to keep will and abbreviate as Cro-Magnon, mostly for use in plural ( 41 Cro-Magnon;. Cro-Magnon is the local name of a French cave in which fossils from those who are defining the Group were found. Their dating ( 40 000 and 10 000 years old ) is taken as the milestone that gives start to the upper Palaeolithic from the anthropological point of view, while the modern limit the appearance of any physical modifications does not mark, but environmental and cultural: the end of the last ice age and the beginning of the current interglacial period ( 41 Holocene geological period; with cultural periods named Mesolithic and the Neolitico.el use of the concept " 34 Crô-magnon man; as an alternative to other denominations is abandoned by Prehistorians and paleontologists today, although its use in publications, normally as a synonym of Homo sapiens in the Paleolithic, without further details can be found.

  










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