Cro-Magnon
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He said he based the concept of He-Man on his vision of Cro-Magnon men, as well as Vikings.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2021
Left for dead, a Cro-Magnon teen forms an unlikely alliance with a lone wolf that was abandoned by its pack.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2019
He was 18 when he made his first professional sale, a short story called “Spear and Fang” in which a Cro-Magnon rescues his mate from a Neanderthal.
From Washington Times • May 8, 2018
Neanderthal characters are slightly more appealing in Jean M. Auel’s 1980 novel, “The Clan of the Cave Bear,” a best-selling prehistoric drama about an orphaned Cro-Magnon girl who is taken in by a Neanderthal tribe.
From New York Times • May 25, 2017
No one could confidently say, for instance, when the last ice sheets had retreated or at what time in the past the Cro-Magnon people had decorated the caves of Lascaux in France.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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