Neanderthal vs. Cro-Magnon Cheat Sheet Neanderthals: Our Cold-Adapted Cousins Fossils of this species of prehistoric human ancestor were discovered first in Germany’s Neander Valley in 1856.

The early modern skull and jawbone (above, at right) come from Cro-Magnon I, one of several individuals whose remains turned up in a rockshelter in the Dordogne in 1868.

July 16, 2008 — -- Did the first modern humans in Europe share a bed with nearby Neanderthals? Almost certainly not, according to a new analysis of 28,000 year old Cro-Magnon DNA. The Cro ...

The hunting prowess of the Neanderthal matched those who supplanted them, the Cro-Magnon, say researchers who have examined ungulate teeth and bones found in a cave in which both types of hominids ...

'When they come face-to-face with the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon men, people have as close as they can get to a real encounter,' he says, adding, ... Listen to the tale of the first adult Neanderthal ...

They were generally taller than Neanderthals (in some cases the latter were up to 0.3 meters or 1 foot shorter) ... Cro-Magnon 1, the skull of an adult man found at the cave, ...

Neanderthal vs. Cro-Magnon Cheat Sheet. Species Name. Era. Range. Neanderthals. ... Neanderthals were more muscular than the later Homo sapiens, and their skulls were flatter, ...

Though similar to Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons have some interesting differences. What does the fossil record reveal about their intelligence and how they survived ... their brain case was “higher and ...

Though similar to Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons have some interesting differences. What does the fossil record reveal about their intelligence and how they survived? By Sara Novak. Dec 28, ... that they ...