English: Range map of the Cro-Magnon man (Homo sapiens) - also known as European Early Modern Humans (or EEMH), showing the extent of their migration into Europe, the western Middle East, and north Africa up to 30,000 years before present (ybp).

• File:BlankMap-World6, compact.svg by Canuckguy et al.

• Data taken from maps located in: Currat, Mathias and Laurent Excoffier. "Modern humans did not admix with Neanderthals during their range expansion into Europe." PLoS biology 2, no. 12 (2004): e421. Academic Editor: David Penny. Copyright: ©2004 Currat and Excoffier. http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020421 DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.0020421 ISSN:1544-9173 LCCN:2003-212293 OCLC:52292449 The article has the following statement attached: "This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited."

Note: The range extent is approximate: please allow for a small factor of error.

Date: 31 March 2010

Author:Saukkomies