Science cannot extract language, kinship, ceremony, or personal identity.

The people who wielded this bone point were fully human in every relevant sense.

They were cognitively modern — capable of complex planning, sophisticated tool manufacture, and the kind of coordinated behavior that hunting large and dangerous prey demands.

They had knowledge of their landscape, of the animals in it, of the materials available to them and how to work those materials into functional tools.

They had the kind of community and social structure that allowed the transmission of that knowledge from generation to generation — because the skill to make a bone projectile point of the quality that the Manis reconstruction suggests cannot be reinvented by each individual from scratch; it must be taught, learned, practiced.