Abri de Cro-Magnon

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Abri de Cro-Magnon

The Abri de Cro-Magnon is a semi-cave on the outskirts of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in France ( Dordogne department ), which is mainly known as the Upper Paleolithic site. The first remains of the Cro-Magnon man were found in the abri in 1868 . The name is derived from the Occitan word cro (depression, trough) and magnon , the name of the former owner of the site.

The geologist Louis Lartet (1840–1899) carried out the excavation after his father Édouard Lartet - the founder of the paleolithic excavations in France - had inspected the abbey. During the excavations in 1868, he found five human skeletons about 30,000 years old, three men, a woman and an infant. With the radiocarbon method , the grave goods (marine snails of the species Littorina littorea ) were dated to 27,680 ± 270 years BP ( Beta 157439 ). This means that they date back to the Stone Age culture of Gravettia .

The anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ) who immigrated from Africa to Europe were named after the Cro-Magnon site as Cro-Magnon humans . The term became synonymous with Ice Age Homo sapiens .

In 1979 the site was included in the UNESCO World Heritage Vézère Valley: Sites and cave paintings on the list of World Heritage Sites.

Plaque at the site of the Cro-Magnon man
Abri de Cro-Magnon

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Individual evidence

↑ Louis Lartet: Une sépultre des Troglodytes du Périgord (crânes des Eyzies). Bulletins de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, Volume 3, 1868, pp. 335-349
^ Louis Lartet: Mémoire sur une sépulture des anciens troglodytes de Périgord . In: Annales des sciences naturelles II Zoologie, 5ème Série, X, 1868, 141 p., 6 plates
^ Paul Broca : Sur les crânes et les ossements des Eyzies. Bulletins de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris 3, 1868, pp. 350-392
^ Paul Broca: On the human skulls and bones found in the cave of Cro-Magnon near Les Eyzies. In E. Lartet, H. Christy (eds): Reliquiae Aquitanicae, being Contributions to Anthropology and Palaeontology of Périgord and the Adjoining Provinces of Southern France , Volume 1. William and Morgate, London, 1865-1875, pp. 97-122
^ D. Henry-Gambier, RW White: New chrono-cultural data on the Cro-Magnon and Combe-Capelle human remains (Dordogne, France): consequences for the biocultural origins of modern humans in Europe . Annual Meetings of the Paleoanthropology Society, Tempe, Arizona 2003.
^ D. Henry-Gambier: Les fossiles de Cro-Magnon (Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, Dordogne): Nouvelles donnees sur leur Position chronologique et leur attribution culturelle . In: Bull. Et Mém. de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris . Volume 14, 2002, pp. 89-112.

[1] Louis Lartet: Une sépultre des Troglodytes du Périgord (crânes des Eyzies). Bulletins de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, Volume 3, 1868, pp. 335-349

[2] Louis Lartet: Mémoire sur une sépulture des anciens troglodytes de Périgord . In: Annales des sciences naturelles II Zoologie, 5ème Série, X, 1868, 141 p., 6 plates

[3] Paul Broca : Sur les crânes et les ossements des Eyzies. Bulletins de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris 3, 1868, pp. 350-392

[4] Paul Broca: On the human skulls and bones found in the cave of Cro-Magnon near Les Eyzies. In E. Lartet, H. Christy (eds): Reliquiae Aquitanicae, being Contributions to Anthropology and Palaeontology of Périgord and the Adjoining Provinces of Southern France , Volume 1. William and Morgate, London, 1865-1875, pp. 97-122

[5] D. Henry-Gambier, RW White: New chrono-cultural data on the Cro-Magnon and Combe-Capelle human remains (Dordogne, France): consequences for the biocultural origins of modern humans in Europe . Annual Meetings of the Paleoanthropology Society, Tempe, Arizona 2003.

[6] D. Henry-Gambier: Les fossiles de Cro-Magnon (Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, Dordogne): Nouvelles donnees sur leur Position chronologique et leur attribution culturelle . In: Bull. Et Mém. de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris . Volume 14, 2002, pp. 89-112.