Cro-Magnon 1 Skull Replica

Description

Cro-Magnon 1 skull replica measures 7.8 x 6.3 x 6.3 inches. The Cro-Magnon 1 skull is a museum-quality polyurethane resin cast of original specimen. 2-part skull (separate cranium and jaw). 1:1 scale. Made in USA.

In 1868, workmen found animal bones, flint tools, and human skulls in the rock shelter. French geologist Louis Lartet was called for excavations, and found the partial skeletons of four prehistoric adults and one infant, along with perforated shells used as ornaments, an object made from ivory, and worked reindeer antler.

These “Cro-Magnon men” were identified as the prehistoric human race of Europe, as distinct from Neanderthal Man, described a few years earlier by William King based on the Neanderthal 1 fossil discovered in Germany in 1856.

Lartet proposed the subspecies name Homo sapiens fossils in 1869. The term Cro-Magnon Man or EEMH soon came to be used in a general sense to describe the oldest modern people in Europe.

By the 1970s, the term was used for any early European modern human or EEMH wherever found, as was the case with the far-flung Jebel Qafzeh remains in Israel and various Paleo Indians in the Americas.

The term “Cro-Magnon” remains in use, but since the late 1990s has typically been restricted to European early modern humans.

Cro-Magnon 1 or EEMH consists of a skull and partial skeletal remains belonging to a male individual, approximately 40 years old. The cranial cavity measures 98 cu in. The capacity of a modern adult anatomically modern human’s cranial cavity is 73 to 104 cu in.