Why do we denounce our Cro-Magnon ancestry?

Question

We are all of Cro-Magnon ancestry who migrated out of Eastern Africa around 100000 years ago, and Cro-Magnons looked like modern Central Europeans because back then it was still the Ice Age. Why do we denounce our most significant heritage and make fun of Senator Barack Obama because of his brown skin color and somewhat broader nostrils?

Answer 1

Worf, you mentioned that Cro-Magnon's were a side branch which isn't actually true. What you are saying is normally applied to Neanderthals. Neanderthals were the first to colonize Europe and anthropologists are divided on whether, or not, they contributed anything to the gene pool of modern europeans. Many anthropologists believe that Cro-Magnons completely replaced Neanderthals. I think I heard somewhere that Finns are the "purest" Cro-Magnon descendants.

To answer the original question: I also have never heard anyone specifically bash Cro-Magnon.

Answer 2

I have not heard of anyone making fun of Obama or Cro-Magnons. I don't denounce Cro-Magnon ancestry.  I won't vote for someone because of a shared ancestry.  I vote for experience and stance.  As an American vet, I will vote for McCain.  If Colin Powell would run, I would vote for him but not because we are both from Africa.

Answer 3

Dont forget his purple lips too.

Answer 4

Only europeans are of Cro-Magnon ancestry.

Blacks are a separate race that DEvolved from earlier homo sapiens that stayed behind in africa. We did NOT evolve from blacks. Blacks share no ancestry with Cro-Magnon whatsoever.

Cro-magnon was the first anatomically modern human being, and he was fully caucasian. He had no negroid admixture.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

ummm...  Because evolution is full of holes

Answer 7

What the above poster said about cro-magnons being modern humans (does anyone else remember that Sliders episode with the cro-mags who were hideous ape-beast things? Never mind).  Also, Obama's not Central European, and the earliest humans probably didn't look particularly European, either, as they evolved in Africa.

Answer 8

Why Don't We Call Them Cro-Magnon Anymore?

http://archaeology.about.com/od/earlyman...

Answer 9

This is a really stupid question.

Answer 10

OK here we go again.

Cro-magnon is a name no longer used. The Cro-magnon people were modern people. In 1868 the first evidence of their culture was found near the town of Cro-magnon, France. It was assumed they were a different species of human.

"Recent research over the past 20 years or so, however, has led scholars to believe that the physical dimensions of so-called 'Cro-Magnon' are not sufficiently different enough from modern humans to warrant a separate designation. Scientists today use 'Anatomically Modern Human' (AMH) or 'Early Modern Human' (EMH)... The more we learn about early modern humans, the less we feel confident about the early classification systems we developed more than 130 years ago. The term Cro-Magnon doesn't refer to a particular taxonomy or even a particular group located in a particular place. The word is not precise enough, and so most paleontologists prefer to use Anatomically Modern or Early Modern Humans. "

http://archaeology.about.com/od/earlyman...

Want to just call them "cavemen" and picture them in a Geico commercial?

The group that normally gets the bad press are the Neandertals. Right now they aren't in our lineage. That leaves out picking on them.

Cro-magnon is a term not used any more. Yea, yea, you same the word and most of us know what you're taking about. However, they were the same as us.

Answer 11

We don't denounce our cro-magnon ancestry because we're not descendant from cro-magnon.  Cro-magnon is an offshoot of the human evolution and yes, they were the first to colonize Europe, but they died out, once modern humans (homo sapiens) got there.  Homo sapiens is a direct evolution from homo erectus and homo habilis, while cro-magnon branched off that line.

What ANY of this has to do with modern prejudices steming from 16th century european values is beyond me.

Answer 12

Yes, this is a very imprecise term.  The Xuanches in the Canary Islands were supposed to be cromagnons, but intermarried with the Spanish.

Answer 13

We don't.  In fact you are the first person I've ever heard putting down our Cro-Magnan ancestors.  Why did you do it?