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jun 1, 25000 BC - Cro-Magnon Man reaches Europe, earliest Paleolithic art

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The term Cro-Magnon doesn't refer to a particular taxonomy or even a particular group located in a particular place. The word is simply not precise enough, and so most paleontologists prefer to use AMH or EMH to refer to the immediate ancestor hominins we modern humans evolved from.
Archaeologists call the tools associated with EMH the Aurignacian industry, which includes a reliance on the production of blades. In blade technology, the knapper has sufficient skill to purposefully produce a long thin sliver of stone that is triangular in cross-section. Blades were then converted into all kinds of tools, sort of the Swiss army knife of early modern humans.
Other things associated with early modern humans include ritual burials, such as that at Abrigo do Lagar Velho Portugal, where a child's body was covered with red ochre before being interred 24,000 years ago--there is some evidence of ritual behavior among Neanderthals. The invention of the hunting tool known as the atlatl was at least as long as 17,500 years ago, the earliest having been recovered from the site of Combe Sauniere. Venus figurines are attributed to early modern humans of about 30,000 years ago; and of course, let's not forget the amazing cave paintings of Lascaux, Chauvet, and others.
Read more:
https://www.thoughtco.com/we-dont-call-them-cro-magnon-170738

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jun 1, 25000 BC
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~ 27042 years ago

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