page_title: European early modern humans
section_title: Assemblages and fossils
hierarchical_section_title: European early modern humans / Assemblages and fossils
context_page_description: "European early modern humans" is a term for the earliest populations of anatomically modern humans in Europe, during the
  Upper Paleolithic. It is taken to include fossils from throughout the Last Glacial Maximum, covering the period of about 48,000 to 15,000 years ago, spanning the Bohunician, Aurignacian, Gravettian, Solutrean and Magdalenian periods.
  The term EEMH is equivalent to Cro-Magnon Man, or "Cro-Magnons", a term derived from the Cro-Magnon rock shelter in southwestern France, where the first EEMH were found in 1868. Louis Lartet proposed Homo sapiens fossilis as the systematic name for "Cro-Magnon Man". W. K. Gregory proposed the subspecies name Homo sapiens cro-magnonensis. In literature published since the late 1990s, the term EEMH is generally preferred over the common name Cro-Magnon, which has no formal taxonomic status, as "it refers neither to a species or subspecies nor to an archaeological phase or culture". Use of "Cro-Magnon" is mostly restricted to times after the beginning of the Aurignacian proper, c. 37 to 35 ka.
  The oldest known EEMH fossil remains are found in Bacho Kiro cave, Bulgaria. They are dated from c. 47,000 BC. up to c. 44,000 BC.
caption: Cro-Magnon 2, the female skull found at Cro-Magnon (1884 drawing)
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