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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

Menton

1 entries published in this place. (Menton, FR)

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1873

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Découverte d’un squelette humain de l’époque paléolithique dans les cavernes des Baoussé-Roussé dites grottes de Menton.

RIVIÈRE, Émile (1835 – 1922)

In March 1872 Rivière discovered an entire fossil human skeleton in a cave at Menton, in the south of France near the Italian border. The skeleton, later known as “Menton man,” closely resembles the Cro-Magnon remains…