Modern man

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Early Modern Humans

  • Burial
  • Fishing

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_modernity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_human https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-sapiens


Cro-Magnum man

  • development of speech
  • conceptual or abstract thought, ability to
    • categorize, distinguish, generalize
    • extend objects into ideas (as opposed to concrete thought)
  • cave painting & symbolism
  • complex tool making, such as bows & arrows, clothing, boats, pottery, and jewelry
  • musical instruments, including bone flutes, drums, idiophone (vibrations to produce sound)
  • spirituality (as seen in burials, rituals, and Stone Age medicine)
  • domestication of dogs (first animal domesticated)