Can I just say, as an avid amateur fan of archaeology, that I hate the term ‘cave man’ and wish people would stop using it. It’s based on the ignorant idea that just because we find stone-age tools in caves, that was the place where everyone lived. They didn’t. Quite the opposite, in fact, and it’s the reason we find such things in caves- because people don’t go into caves very often, the are often untouched by most weather, and they don’t do things like plow over them.
We know from other archaeology, in fact, that homo sapiens were already living in huts in the paleolithic, meaning that our pre-homo sapiens ancestors probably were too. It’s not like it takes a lot of brains or even skills to build a simple hut.
Can I just say, as an avid amateur fan of archaeology, that I hate the term ‘cave man’ and wish people would stop using it. It’s based on the ignorant idea that just because we find stone-age tools in caves, that was the place where everyone lived. They didn’t. Quite the opposite, in fact, and it’s the reason we find such things in caves- because people don’t go into caves very often, the are often untouched by most weather, and they don’t do things like plow over them.
We know from other archaeology, in fact, that homo sapiens were already living in huts in the paleolithic, meaning that our pre-homo sapiens ancestors probably were too. It’s not like it takes a lot of brains or even skills to build a simple hut.