Cro-Magnon skull (30,000 - 32,000 years).
This Cro-Magnon skull was discovered by L. Lartet and H. Christy on a cliff in 1868 during the construction of railway lines in Les-Eyzies, France.
Cro-Magnon, meaning "big cliff," represents the earliest modern humans from Western Europe.
Classic modern human features include a large brain capacity (over 1,600cm3), shortened face with rectangular eye sockets, a high forehead, hollowed cheekbones, and noticeable chin. Many feel Cro-Magnon is more similar in appearance to modern Africans than modern Europeans, suggesting that this population came from Africa or Asia.
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