CroMagnons

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Cro-Magnons

• The First Modern Man

Brandie Wigginton Andrea DeJesus
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Who were the Cro-Magnons?

• Homo sapien sapien

• Lived from 30,000B.C. to 10,000B.C.

• Nomadic hunters and gatherers

• Fossils found in caverns in 1868

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Physical Characteristics

• Looks similar to modern man
• high foreheads
• well-defined chins
• small eyebrow ridges
• 6ft.in height
• robust
• erect posture
• straight necks
• domed heads
• prominent noses

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We Are What We Eat
Typical diet included

• seeds, berries, roots, and nuts
• fish, reindeer, and other fresh game

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Hunting Techniques

• Organized hunts

• Used traps

• Used poisons

• Bows and arrows

• Built rafts and canoes

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Homes and Shelters

• Built permanent settlements

• Ice Age Huts during the winter

• Long huts

• Lived in tents during the summer

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Clothing

• Clothes made of softened
• leather for warmth

• Sewing threads and needles
• made of animal guts and bones

• Clothes made of woven grass
• and bark for ventilation in warm
• temperatures

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Society

• Well organized communities

• Carried food back to shelter and shared amongst
• other families

• Developed rituals associated with hunting,
• birth, and death

• Evidence of belief in the afterlife

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Burial Ceremonies

• Buried dead with ivory beads, pendants,
• bracelets, and shell necklaces

• Paralleled their social status

• Different burial techniques

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Important Accomplishments

• First to show signs of thinking and planning for
  
• the future

• Created a crude lunar calendar

• Created methods of natural refrigeration

• Used fire in more sophisticated ways

• Gradually began to farm land and breed animals

• Developed more sophisticated tools

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Tools

• Made advanced stone and
• bone tools

• Developed new tools for
• hunting

• Animals used for tools and
• other resources

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Cave Paintings and Art

• Paintings focused on hunters and animals

• Paintings had symbolic and religious values

• Oral spray-painting

• Paints made with minerals

• Pigments such as iron
• oxide or black
• manganese

• Dangerous methods encountered in order
• to create cave paintings

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More Cave Art
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And Some More
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Paintings and Arts (cont.)

• Pottery created and fired for luster
• and durability

• Statues created from ivory

• Necklaces and bracelets made of shells,
• teeth, feathers, flowers and bone

• Decorated own bodies with paints and
• tatoos, made from natural dyes

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Conclusion

• Not violent brutes

• Very similar to modern man in
• several ways

• Made many advances for their time