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Caveman
A caveman is a stock character based upon widespread anachronistic concepts of the way in which neanderthals, early modern humans, or archaic hominids may have looked and behaved. The term originates out of assumptions about the association between early humans and caves, most clearly demonstrated in cave painting. The term is not used in academic research.
==Basis of archetype==
Cavemen are portrayed as wearing shaggy animal hides, and capable of cave painting like behaviourally modern humans of the ice-age. They are simultaneously shown armed with rocks or cattle bone clubs, unintelligent, and aggressive, traits more like those of ice-age Neanderthals or much older, pre-ice age archaic hominids. The image of them living in caves arises from the fact that caves are where the preponderance of artifacts have been found from European ice-age cultures such as Les Eyzies, although this most likely reflects the degree of preservation that caves provide over the millennia rather than an indication of their typical form of shelter. Until the ice age most early modern humans and hominids did not live in caves, being nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes, and behaviourally modern humans living in a variety of temporary structures such as tents (see Jerry D. Moore, "The Prehistory of Home", University of California Press, 2012) and wooden huts (e.g. at Ohalo). Their societies were similar to those of many modern day indigenous peoples. A few genuine pre-ice age cave dwellings did however exist such as Mt. Carmel in Israel.
Popular culture frequently represents cavemen as living with or alongside dinosaurs, even though dinosaurs became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period, some 66 million years before the emergence of the human species. D. W. Griffith's ''Brute Force'', a silent film released in 1914, represents one of the earliest portrayals of cavemen and dinosaurs together; more recent examples include the comic strip ''B.C.''(1958- ) and the television series ''The Flintstones'' (1960-1966).
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