The bones of the first five Cro-Magnon specimens were discovered in in 1868 while road construction was taking place in the Dordogne Valley in southwestern France. The remains identified at the ...

They were an offshoot of an earlier common ancestor, and they eventually lost out to their smarter, more advanced cousins: ...

Not until the late 19th century did humans learn of the extraordinary art produced by their Ice Age ancestors, the Cro-Magnon people of Western Europe. These early artists decorated walls of caves ...