Cro-Magnon
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He said he based the concept of He-Man on his vision of Cro-Magnon men, as well as Vikings.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2021
He was 18 when he made his first professional sale, a short story called “Spear and Fang” in which a Cro-Magnon rescues his mate from a Neanderthal.
From Washington Times • May 8, 2018
So we sort of made this plan of how Sheila would go from Cro-Magnon to erect human through the course of the show.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2017
In death, he has gained a measure of immortality for his Dadaesque series of paintings, “The Brute,” which depicts a kind of Cro-Magnon James Dean with a cigarette dangling from his mouth.
From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2015
Sometime during the last glacial epoch, when hunter-gatherers were still living in caves, the Neanderthal tool-making mentality gave way to the Cro-Magnon urge to make images.
From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell
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