CroMagnon
Humanity's original master-thinkers, breaking the chains of evolution to build a world of cultural innovation.
The CroMagnon is presented in two blends. The follow-up to the original blend features a high-priming US Pennsylvania Broadleaf Maduro wrapper and a filler blend consisting of a variety of Nicaraguan Criollo 98 tobaccos from Jalapa and Pueblo Nuevo and Dominican Ligeros from La Canela (Criollo 98) and Santuario (Corojo 99).
| Vitola | Description |
|---|---|
| Pestera Muierilor Petite Corona, 4 x 46 | A Romanian cave site where Cro-Magnon remains were dated to over 30,000 years ago. The brand's eastern frontier of Early Modern Human evidence. |
| Knuckle Dragger Petite Robusto, 4 x 52 | The caricature of the prehistoric human, addressed directly. The cigar's name is the correction. |
| Mandible Petite Gordo, 4½ x 60 | The lower jaw, one of the diagnostic bones used to distinguish Cro-Magnon morphology from earlier hominin species. |
| Mode 5 Short Perfecto, 5 x 50 | The blade-and-microblade technology that defined Cro-Magnon material culture. Sophisticated tools from a people we called primitive. |
| EMH Robusto Extra, 5 x 56 | Early Modern Human. The technical term that replaces the colloquial one and changes what the description names. |
| Anthropology Gran Corona, 5¾ x 46 | The discipline that documents what the Cro-Magnon were actually doing and corrects what was assumed. |
| Cranium Gran Toro, 6 x 54 | The skull. Cro-Magnon 1, the type specimen, was the cranium found in Les Eyzies in 1868. |
Limited Editions
| Vitola | Description |
|---|---|
| Mastodon Petite Gordo Prensado, 4½ x 60P | The Pleistocene megafauna the Cro-Magnon hunted. Gone now, except in the cave paintings. |
| EMH Clovis Robusto Extra Rayado, 5 x 56P | The Clovis point: the North American extension of the Mode 5 blade tradition, named for Clovis, New Mexico, where the type was identified. The Cro-Magnon descendants who crossed into the Americas made these. |
| Gran Perfecto Gran Perfecto, 5 5/8 x 60 | The figurado tapered at both ends, the most demanding shape in any roller's repertoire. The portfolio's recurring LE expression of each blend's outer limits. |
| Blockhead Gran Toro Prensado, 6 x 54P | Another caricature of primitive form. Named here, the way the brand names every misperception it intends to refute. |