Grimaldi man is known from two skeletons, one of a boy of sixteen and the other an adult woman, found in a grotto near the village of Grimaldi on the Riviera coast.

Associated artefacts indicate that the find belongs to the early Aurignacian. The Grimaldi forms are, then, roughly of the same age as Cro-Magnon.

In general, the Grimaldi specimens are not unlike Cro-Magnon. There are, however, a number of important differences. Thus, the woman is 5′ 3″ tall, the youth 5′ 1/2″.

In both, the lower arm and leg bones are unusually long as compared to the upper arm and thigh bones, respectively. 

The pelvis, especially of the woman, arc strikingly Negroid in form. 

Both skulls are long, narrow, and high-vaulted, and the cephalic indices are 68 for the female, 69 for the male. 

Cranial capacity in the male is 1,265 cc., in the female 1,454 cc. 

The noses are broad, have a low bridge, and the lower margins of the nasal opening end in gathers rather than sharp edges.

Upper and lower jaws are projecting, the chin is weakly developed, orbits are low and broad, and the palate is long, high, and narrow. 

It is clear, then, that the Grimaldi specimens show far more marked Negroid characteristics than the Cro-Magnons. We may conclude from this that an Upper Pleistocene type possibly ancestral to the modern Negroids lived in Europe as a contemporary of Cro-Magnon and intermixed with that group