Cro-Magnon en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /kroʊˈmænjən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /kroʊˈmænjən/ (General-American)
- /-ˈmæɡnən/ (General-American)
Etymology
From French Cro-Magnon, from Occitan Cròs-Manhon. Named after Abri de Cro-Magnon, a rock shelter in the commune of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, Dordogne, France, where the first skeletons were found in 1868.
Meanings
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The earliest known form of modern human (Homo sapiens) in Europe, dating from the late Paleolithic.
The Cro Magnon came to live in Europe around forty thousand years ago and most educated people have heard of them. The Cro Magnon are the ones who created the remarkable cave paintings found in southern France and Spain at Lascaux and Altamira.
2006, Lyndall Baker Landauer, The Learning Pool: Basic Science Everyone Needs to Know, Xlibris, page 85:In addition, the latest evidence suggests that the "agricultural revolution" occurred sometime during the second half of the Cro-Magnon era. Anatomically, the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon brains were approximately the same overall size.
2009, Anthony Scioli, Henry B. Biller, Hope in the Age of Anxiety, Oxford University Press, page 44:The Cro-Magnons may have been one important step beyond the Neanderthals in social organization.[…]That the Cro-Magnons and the Neanderthals encountered each other is probable. There seems to be no more than a five-thousand-year interval between the general occupation of home sites by the Neanderthals and their replacement by Cro-Magnon tools and fossils.
1994, Seymour W. Itzkoff, The Decline of Intelligence in America: A Strategy for National Renewal, Greenwood Publishing Group (Praeger Publishers), page 14:
- (derogatory) A backward and stupid person, a knuckle-dragger or troglodyte.
Forms
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Relateds
Synonyms
European early modern human · Cro-Magnon Man
Translations (18)
bg кроманьо́нец (earliest known form of modern human, in Europe) · de Cro-Magnon-Mensch (earliest known form of modern human, in Europe) · fr Cro-Magnon (earliest known form of modern human, in Europe) · ru кроманьо́нка (earliest known form of modern human, in Europe) · pl kromaniończyk (earliest known form of modern human, in Europe) · oc Cròs-Manhon (earliest known form of modern human, in Europe) · oc òme de Cròsmanhon (earliest known form of modern human, in Europe) · ja クロマニョン人 (earliest known form of modern human, in Europe) · uk кроманьйо́нець (earliest known form of modern human, in Europe) · cs kromaňonec (earliest known form of modern human, in Europe) · pl kromanionka (earliest known form of modern human, in Europe) · sh kromanjónac (earliest known form of modern human, in Europe) · oc Cròsmanhon (earliest known form of modern human, in Europe) · ru кроманьо́нец (earliest known form of modern human, in Europe) · fr homme de Cro-Magnon (earliest known form of modern human, in Europe) · sh кромањо́нац (earliest known form of modern human, in Europe) · cmn 克羅馬儂人 /克罗马侬人 (earliest known form of modern human, in Europe) · fi Cro-Magnonin ihminen (earliest known form of modern human, in Europe)