Step back into the Paleolithic and meet Europe’s first modern humans. Discover how the Cro-Magnons lived, hunted, and laid the foundation for future European civilizations.

When scientists first discovered these remains of a teenage girl in 2010, they knew that the history of early humans was about to be rewritten. Now we know what the face of a Denisovan actually looked ...

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 ...

A Cro-Magnon Capulet? ©2003 The National Academy of Sciences 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 ...

Human fossils illustrating the variation in brain (skulls) and body size (thigh bones) during the Pleistocene. Skulls: Left: Amud 1, Neanderthal, 55.000 years ago, ~1750 cm³ Middle: Cro Magnon, Homo ...

Shaping skulls Fossils used to develop a model of what Neanderthals looked like were found at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, in 1908. These features were later determined to be the result of ...

And secondly, the researchers would prove out a method that could then be applied to other Gravettian and Cro-Magnon populations across Europe, ... Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, ...

Differences in the skull further set Cro-Magnons apart from Neanderthals. For example, the braincase of Cro-Magnons was “higher and rounder” compared to Neanderthal skulls. Additionally, early human ...