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Man is a “technological animal”. This is one of the many definitions which were proposed in an attempt to outline the difference between humans and the other animals. Actually, one of the basic characteristics of the human species, and partially also of the hominids who preceded it, is its ability to develop the technology that, from the early advances of the Stone Age, has today led us to leave our planet on our first, hesitant attempts to travel through space.
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In this work, modern man will be defined as homo sapiens, instead of homo sapiens sapiens as was customary in the past. In the same way, instead of homo sapiens praesapiens and homo sapiens neanderthaliensis, the terms archaic homo sapiens, or homo heidelbergensis, and homo neanderthaliensis will be used. The most ancient homo sapiens is the Cro-Magnon man.
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Genta, G., Riberi, P. (2019). Technology in prehistory. In: Technology and the Growth of Civilization. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25583-1_1
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