Are Cro-Magnon peoples still in existence today?

Question

I heard that Cro-Magnon types can be found in Spain, France, and Britain.

Answer 1

There are people who look and act like cavemen. Or have hair covering their faces. But really, I think the Cro-Magnons are hanging with those people who still speak Latin in the Alps who are actually on the island of fake deaths chilling with 2pac, biggie, and elvis whose pet is actually the Loch Ness monster and every thursday they have play dates with every "dead" wrestler's Sasquatches.

Answer 2

The name "Cro Magnon" was assigned because of the site that the archaeological remains were located and is not actually a distinct species. Cro Magnon is actually just a common name for the species known as Homo sapiens sapiens, aka anatomically modern Homo sapiens, aka modern man, aka humans. The Cro Magnon site dates to around 40,000 ya, but Modern man has a much longer lineage.

The site is comprised of as many as ten fossil Homo sapiens sapiens, but only five of these are complete enough to make any conclusions regarding this groups’ morphological expression.  At first they were believed to be “tall” but in-fact, upon more recent investigation it has been determined that the five representative skeletons represent a height range from 166 to 171 centimetres (five feet five inches to five feet seven inches).  Their bones, however, are slightly more robust then modern humans, although this should be expected given their more robust activity levels as hunter gathers over rough terrains.  This skeletal robustness easily fits within the “norms” of human variance and would be insignificant if compared to humans who have an equally as demanding physical lifestyle.  Of importance in discussing this is to note that bones are made of living tissue that adapts to the conditions that they are subjected to and as-of-such a greater robustness in bones will even occur from constantly trekking over rough terrains as these earlier Homo sapiens definitely were.  Cro Magnon craniums have also been measured to be slightly larger then the “average” modern Homo sapien sapien.  Again, however, they fall easily within the range of modern homo spaien sapiens and this minute discrepancy could most easily be described as an effect of having so few representative skeletons for this particular group, which could slightly “skew” the data by allowing so few to represent the whole.  They could all be from the same family, thus their own “genes” would be related, and perhaps this entire family's cranial dimension also lies outside of their own groups’ range if we had more comparative samples.  We really don't know about the full significance of these cranial measurements and probably never will.

You also seem interested in their lineage since.  Since no DNA was preserved at this site their have been some studies to compare their osteological remains to modern populations to determine which modern groups have the most similarities.  As it turns out some modern human groups that are thought to have retained a close osteology to Cro-Magnon types, especially in their cranial morphology would be the Dal people from Dalecarlia (now Dalarna, Swed.) and the Guanches of the Canary Islands, the latter of which is said to represent a relatively pure Cro-Magnon stock.  Given that this is only based on the comparative osteology of so few prehistoric individuals this conclusions is very liable to error.  Still it is our best estimate.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

yes, but only in HollyWood in the Geico advertisement commercials.

Answer 4

"Cro-Magnon is the informal word once used by scientists to refer to the people who were living alongside Neanderthals at the end of the last ice age (ca. 35,000-10,000 years ago). They were given the name 'Cro-Magnon' because in 1868, parts of five skeletons were discovered in the rockshelter of that name, located in the famous Dordogne Valley of France. Scientists compared these skeletons to those which had earlier been found in Paviland, Wales; and a little later at Combe Capelle and Laugerie-Basse in France, and decided they were different enough from the Neanderthals that they saw of the same age, to give them a different name.

The physical characteristics of Cro-Magnon are very similar to modern humans, although a bit more robust, particularly in the skull. The earliest Cro-Magnon were taller than we are (often reaching over 6 foot four inches), with longer limbs, especially the lower legs; but after about 26,000, the size of Cro-Magnon begin to fall within the modern human range. By 12,000 years ago, Cro-Magnon are fully human. Or rather, we are fully human, because Cro-Magnons are our direct ancestors. "  They wuz us kiddo!

Answer 5

Cro-Magnon is the name given to Homo sapiens living in Europe.  It traditionally refers to the first modern humans who migrated to southern Europe and displaced the Neanderthals.  Technically you could consider humans in Europe Cro-Magnon or their descendants but to apply that label would be a little awkward at best.