CROMAGNON MAN. The discovery in 1868 in the Dor dogne area of the Cromagnon cave-near Les Eyzies-of four skeletons-associated with Aurignacian culture-showed that a tall people, with large skulls-larger than those of modern man had lived in that part of France. Subsequent research has shown that people of this type inhabited a wide area in Europe. The women of this race were shorter than the men, and there are features capable of interpretation as evidence of contact with negroid elements.
See Sir A. Keith, Antiquity of Man, end ed. (1925) .