Cro-Magnon is a term that was used earlier on because these were some of the very first specimens found to show the ancient nature of humans, says Stringer. But now, by comparison, these aren’t really ...

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 50,000-year record of mammals consumed by early humans in southwestern France indicates there was no major difference in the prey hunted by Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, according to a new study.

But though this enriches speculation about Neanderthals, it does not subvert this aspect of Fagan's thesis, because the distance of Cro-Magnon cultural superiority over painted shells is ...

The Neanderthals and the Cro-Magnons interbred and produced offspring." ... As the Cro-Magnon people became more advanced, they learned to build the first true houses, Klein says.

Prehistoric family tree. The reanalysed Cro-Magnon DNA, which comes from maternally-inherited mitochondria, casts further doubt on the kinship between Neanderthals and humans, he says.

In recent years, there has been speculation that climate change wiped out Neanderthal people, or interbreeding with us, since many of us have DNA shared by Neanderthals (we also share 60 percent of ...

'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, 'Their faces are really alive.' Illustrating our ...

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.

Cro-Magnons were early H. sapiens, and their survival was no easy matter.We can tell from the site that the male skeleton was likely about 50 years old at the time of his death. Researchers can see ...