Cro-Magnon remains found
1868 · Event
Railway workers at Les Eyzies uncover a rock shelter holding the skeletons of anatomically modern Ice Age humans.
On these timelines: Human Origins & the Ice Age, Master, France
More from Human Origins & the Ice Age
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- Split between humans and chimpanzees (7000000 BCE)
- Extinction of the Neanderthals (40000 BCE)
- Neanderthal remains found in the Neander Valley (1856)
- Pleistocene Ice Age (2580000 BCE)
- Bruniquel Cave structures (174000 BCE)
- Taung Child discovered (1924)
- Homo floresiensis, the island 'hobbits' (100000 BCE)
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