2
The Neolithic era.
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Pleistocene take-
off (circa 50,000
B.C.E.)
§
Evolution of brain
or voice box?
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Cro-Magnon
enter Europe
(circa 40,000
B.C.E.)
Cave painting (32,000-30,000
B.C.E.) from the Chauvet cave
at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc in the
Ardèche region of France.