page_title: Grimaldi man
section_title: Restoration work and interpretation
hierarchical_section_title: Grimaldi man / Restoration work and interpretation
caption_attribution_description: Grimaldi Man skeletons.
context_page_description: Grimaldi man is the name formerly given to two human skeletons of the Upper Paleolithic discovered in Italy in 1901. The remains are now recognized as representing two individuals, and are dated to ca. 26,000 to 22,000 years ago and classified as part of the wider European early modern humans population of the late Aurignacian to early Gravettian.
  Because of their early discovery, there is a long history of interpretation of the fossils. Notably, the remains were originally classified as Negroid by Boule and Vallois. This identification has been obsolete since at least the 1960s, but it was controversially revived in the 1980s as part of the Afrocentrism propagated by Cheikh Anta Diop.
caption: 1916 photo
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