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CROMAGNON RACE

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 483 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CROMAGNON See also:

RACE , the name given by See also:Paul See also:Broca to a type of mankind supposed to be represented by remains found by Lartet, See also:Christy and others, in See also:France in the Cromagnon See also:cave at See also:Les Eyzies, Tayac See also:district, See also:Dordogne. At the See also:foot of a steep See also:rock near the See also:village this small cave, nearly filled with debris, was found by workmen in 1868. Towards the See also:top of the loose strata three human skeletons were unearthed. They were those of an old See also:man, a See also:young man and a woman, the latter's See also:skull bearing the See also:mark of a severe See also:wound. The skulls presented such See also:special characteristics that Broca took them as types of a race. See also:Palaeolithic man is exclusively See also:long-headed, and the See also:dolichocephalic See also:appearance of the crania (they had a mean cephalic See also:index of 73.34) supported the view that the " find " at Les Eyzies was palaeolithic. It is, however, inaccurate to See also:state that brachycephaly appears at once with the See also:neolithic See also:age, dolichocephaly even of a pronounced type persisting far into neolithic times. The Cromagnon race may thus be, as many anthropologists believe it, See also:early neolithic, a type of man who spread over and inhabited a large portion of See also:Europe at the See also:close of the See also:Pleistocene See also:period. Some have sought to find in it the sub-stratum of the See also:present populations of western Europe. Quatrefages identifies Cromagnon man with the tall, long-headed, See also:fair See also:Kabyles (See also:Berbers) who still survive in various parts of Mauritania. He suggests the introduction of the Cromagnon from See also:Siberia, " arriving in Europe simultaneously with the See also:great mammals (which were driven by the See also:cold from Siberia), and no doubt following their route." See A. H.

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Keane's See also:Ethnology (1896) ; See also:Mortillet, Le Prehistorique (1900) ; Sergi, The Mediterranean Race (19o1) ; See also:Lord See also:Avebury, Prehistoric Times, p. 317 of 1900 edition.

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