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 ...

Human ancestry is a lot more diverse than that ... Two of these extinct beings—Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon people—are pretty ...

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 ...