Grimaldi Man
Hombre de Grimaldi
- Date
- 1901 · confidence high
- Place
- Grimaldi, Liguria, Italy
- Credited to
- René Verneau
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Two Upper Paleolithic skeletons found in the Grimaldi caves (Balzi Rossi) in Italy, described by French anthropologist René Verneau and attributed to the earliest modern human populations of Europe.
What it led to
- documents the physical variability of the earliest modern Europeans
- an early reference in the study of the European Upper Paleolithic
- compared for decades with the Cro-Magnon remains