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Cro-Magnon

[kroh-mag-nuhn, -non, -man-yuhn] / kroʊˈmæg nən, -nɒn, -ˈmæn yən /


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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

In death, he has gained a measure of immortality for his Dadaesque series of paintings, “The Brute,” which depicts a kind of Cro-Magnon James Dean with a cigarette dangling from his mouth.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2015

Sometime during the last glacial epoch, when hunter-gatherers were still living in caves, the Neanderthal tool-making mentality gave way to the Cro-Magnon urge to make images.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell