In March 1868, the geologist Louis Lartet, financed by Henry Christy,
discovered the first five skeletons of Cro-Magnons, the earliest known examples
of Homo sapiens sapiens, in the
Cro-Magnon rock shelter at Les Eyzies-de-Tayac. These skeletons included a
foetus, and the skulls found were remarkably modern-looking and much rounder
than the earlier Neanderthal
