European early modern humans is a general term for pre-modern
early modern humans (early
Homo sapiens sapiens) of the
European Upper Paleolithic. The term is largely interchangeable with
Cro-Magnon as commonly understood, but while the latter somewhat vaguely address the people associated with a number of archaeological phases that make up the
Upper Paleolithic rather than any anatomically modern Palaeolithic human remains from Europe, the term European early modern humans has largely supplanted it in scientific use. The two terms also differ somewhat in composition.