Modern man
Early Modern Humans[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- 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)