Cro-Magnons A place in time Myth Commentary

Édouard Lartet, Louis Lartet primatology

Cro-Magnons

Édouard Lartet, fascinated with fossils, found countless fossilized mammal bones digging in Sansan Hill in Gascony, including the first fossil anthropoid jawbone of the species named Pliopithecus antiquus leading to the conjecture that early apes and humans lived together far back in time. Édouard and his son, Louis, excavated a cave near Aurignac in southern France where human bones had been found in a rabbit hole and found more human bones associated with the bones of extinct animals. The idea that we used to eat mammals that have become extinct was too strange for people to accept readily but then Louis discovered bones of humans buried purposefully with stone tools and perforated shells and animal teeth, among scattered bones of lion, reindeer, and mammoth, under an outcropping of rock near Les Eyzes in the Dordogne, in an area known as Cro-Magnon.

A place in time

A dot on the horizon of the ocean was an ocean liner. Far back in time was a home we used to live in during a childhood we cannot remember.

Myth

Anatomically modern humans lived and died beside extinct mammals well before the stories in Genesis. What kind of myth is this excavated from the floors of caves? Obviously, these people could not have been as smart as we are today.