“I just really made a decision that for the people I love and for myself, I have to improve. What other point is there to it, in being alive?” If you happen to be in an Upper Manhattan park and see ...

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At the Cro-Magnon rock shelter in France’s Dordogne valley, a French paleontologist discovered partial remains from five people in 1868. Their bones were compared with Neanderthal remains and given a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Light brown plastic cast cranium and ...

The name Cro-Magnon originated with early modern human remains discovered in France in 1868, but it later became deeply entangled with racial anthropology and eugenics. Early researchers promoted ...

About 5,600 years ago, a 20-year-old woman was buried with a tiny baby resting on her chest, a sad clue that she likely died in childbirth during the Neolithic. This woman and six other ancient ...

Cro-Magnon man had a face covered in lumps including a large one on his forehead — likely benign tumours caused by a genetic disease, according to a team of French researchers in new findings ...