Linda Hall lecture and exhibit illuminate our Ice Age kin - Kansas

... This talk, the first in the series “Blade and Bone: The Discovery of Human Antiquity,” dealt with Cro-Magnon Man in the cold but smartly decorated caves of Europe.

Anthropologist Brian M. Fagan of the University of California at Santa Barbara discussed those first modern humans, who pushed out — but apparently not before interbreeding with — the Neanderthals.

“What happened between the two groups is one of the raging questions,” Fagan said.

Before about 500 attendees, he described the brutal conditions of the Ice Age and explained the many advantages of the Cro-Magnon over their cousins in time, the heavier-browed, club-carrying cave man of cartoons...

The later lectures will range from the legacy of Lucy, also known as Australopithecus afarensis...

Last in the series: the so-called Indonesian hobbits. Expect no popcorn...

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