Cromagnonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kroʊˈmænjən/
• (General American) IPA: /kroʊˈmænjən/, /-ˈmæɡnən/

固有名詞

Cro-Magnon

1. The rock shelter in Les Eyzies, France, where the first Cro-Magnon Man specimens were found.

名詞

Cro-Magnon (plural Cro-Magnons or Cro-Magnon)

1. (archaeology) The earliest known form of modern human (Homo sapiens) in Europe, dating from the late Paleolithic.
   • 1994, Seymour W. Itzkoff, The Decline of Intelligence in America: A Strategy for National Renewal‎, Greenwood Publishing Group (Praeger Publishers), page 14:

     The Cro-Magnons may have been one important step beyond the Neanderthals in social organization. […] That the Cro-Magnons and the Neanderthals encountered each other is probable. There seems to be no more than a five-thousand-year interval between the general occupation of home sites by the Neanderthals and their replacement by Cro-Magnon tools and fossils.

   • 2006, Lyndall Baker Landauer, The Learning Pool: Basic Science Everyone Needs to Know, Xlibris, page 85:

     The Cro Magnon came to live in Europe around forty thousand years ago and most educated people have heard of them. The Cro Magnon are the ones who created the remarkable cave paintings found in southern France and Spain at Lascaux and Altamira.

   • 2009, Anthony Scioli, Henry B. Biller, Hope in the Age of Anxiety, Oxford University Press, page 44:

     In addition, the latest evidence suggests that the "agricultural revolution" occurred sometime during the second half of the Cro-Magnon era. Anatomically, the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon brains were approximately the same overall size.

2. (derogatory) A backward and stupid person, a knuckle-dragger or troglodyte.

使用する際の注意点

• The term has no formal status, since it refers neither to a particular species or subspecies nor to an archaeological phase or culture. In current scientific literature, the term European early modern human is preferred.

同意語

• Cro-Magnon Man, European early modern human

関連する語

• Cro-Magnid, Cro-Magnoid

Further reading

• Cro-Magnon rock shelter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• European early modern humans on Wikipedia.Wikipedia