The " Grimaldi Man " found in the Baousse-Rousse cave was named in his honour.
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In this understanding of the term " Cro-Magnon ", the Grimaldi man did not stand out.
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The finding of Grimaldi man at the lowermost of the Aurignacian layers indicate they lived near the cave " before"
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These traits, combined with what de Villeneuve interpreted as prognathism led the discoverers to the conclusion that the Grimaldi man had been of a " negroid " type.
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The Afrocentrist theory of the origin of Europeans vary somewhat from author to author, but the essence is that " white man " only appeared around 20 000 years ago, with a " black " Grimaldi man as ancestor.
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With the estimated age of the find, this means the Grimaldi people would have been contemporary with rather than preceding the Cro-Magnon immigration wave in Europe, though the Grimaldi man may well have been the earliest modern inhabitants of the Ligurian coast.
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In the scientific literature of Quatrefages de Br�au in his " Crania Ethnica " ( 1875 ) popularised the view that the brachycephalic ( round-headed ) Grenelle-Furfooz Men were a distinct racial type to the dolichocephalic ( long-headed ) Cro-Magnons and prognathic Grimaldi Man.
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