Question

Prehistoric man who gave a proper burial to the dead for the first time was-
a. Peking Man
b. Java Man
c. Neanderthal Man
d. Cro magnon Man

Answer 1

Hint: The early humans on the planet with various different extinct hominid relatives are called prehistoric people. Before millions of years ago approx. 10,000 BC, the prehistoric man lived in caves or simple huts and they hunted animals for survival. This period is called the Paleolithic period. Homo habilis is one of the earliest humans on the earth.

Complete answer:
> Neanderthals are recognized from numerous fossils, in particular from 130,000 years ago. The type specimen, Neanderthal, originated in 1856 in the German Neander Valley. After much arguing over their validity, Neanderthals were depicted as being prehistoric, stupid, and violent for much of the early 20th century.

Though Neanderthals did put in the ground their dead, at least rarely—which may explain the profusion of fossil remains—it is not indicative of a spiritual belief of life after death, as such burial could have also had non-symbolic motivations, such as great feeling or to avert scavenging

They used hides to guard their body and buried their Neanderthal man built shelters and used animal hides as clothing.

Peking man is an assemblage of fossil specimens of Homo erectus, cited from approximately 750,000 years ago.

Java man is an early human fossil seen in 1891 and 1892 on the island of Java.
Cro-Magnon is an early Homo sapiens (the species to which modern humans belong) that existed about 40,000 years ago.

Hence, the correct answer is option (C).

Note: Neanderthals were talented to create fire and utilize compound spatial organization of their settlements by limiting certain areas for precise tasks, probably indicating intelligence levels equivalent to modern humans. Certain areas in a settlement appear to have been used for detailed activities, such as for butchering, hearths, knapping, and wood storage. Theories that Neanderthals held funerals for their dead with representative meaning are greatly contested and speculative.