Crude pottery is introduced, allowing food to be boiled instead of roasted on a fire. Fishing using harpoons begins. Dogs are domesticated. Shelter paintings become more common. Large animals like the rhinoceros and elephant were likely painted as objects of worship or fear.
Elephants are quite dangerous during the mating season, and rhinoceros have little fear of anything.
A number of pictographs feature dance scenes, sometimes involving animals. These scenes may represent rituals designed to placate natural forces, or they may represent communal efforts to organize the large numbers required for the hunting of large animals. The dance may have been a way to convince fearful individuals that their power as a group was greater than that of the animals being hunted. Axes made of polished or ground stone being being used. Quality of pottery improves.