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Post by MjolnirH on Nov 14, 2003 2:12:13 GMT -5
hmmmm good question, well lets theorize shal we ok get youself an infant child and observe (heh was easy for me I just got one hehe) watching a child they look around at all of the new wonders of the world outside the womb. they grab ANYTHING and try to eat it. may have been what our ansestors did tried eating rocks dirt tree bark. a child as it grows may take an object such as a stick a whack something or some one with it and check out the result. mostly what the cave men may have done is all of the trial and error type stuff that an infant child goes through.
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Post by Draxy on Nov 14, 2003 2:33:54 GMT -5
That's not too far off Mjolnir, but you have to remember to add to that a keen and questing intellect. Our ancestors (irregardless of Marvel's ideas) were very likely close to be theoretical geniuses.
The human genotype relies on intellect more than on brawn or speed or camouflage ability and in a time when there just weren't that many of us, natural selection for intellect was probably fierce.
The sterotype of the "caveman" was a hulking stupid brute, but this makes no sense in an animal like ourselves that relies to such a great extent on intellect. If strength had been the important survival mechanism then we would have developed it and our society would likely have still been pastoral, if we had ever developed one in the first place. Aka, the gorilla.
Draxy
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Post by Hussar on Nov 14, 2003 2:38:57 GMT -5
Lewd has hit the nail on the head pretty well. What do we mean by cave men? For this discussion to have any meaning, it has to be narrowed down somewhat. Hell, Cavemen could include Homo Neanderthalis as well.
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Post by Draxy on Nov 14, 2003 3:18:39 GMT -5
This is the most sensible theory I've heard yet.
And would they call this game, "Tar Pits and Predators". Hi LWW, Nahh, that one would strike to close to home. You want hypothetical fantasy in your RP. They'd play (to memory quote from an old comic blurb in dragon Magazine from many years agone) Papers and Paychecks; taking on the roles of college students and working folk in a highly technological society. Draxy
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Post by LadyWinterWolf on Nov 14, 2003 3:31:12 GMT -5
*blink, blink.....thinks about what Draxy just said.....falls out of chair laughing*
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Post by Draxy on Nov 14, 2003 10:32:04 GMT -5
*lol* That's why that darned thing has stuck in my mind all these years.
It was back in issue, I don't know, about 75-80 or so. Anyway way back in the day... and when you brought that up... it sprang back with full color and thze old guffaw. Man I used to love the Dragon.
Draxy
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Post by Sharess on Nov 17, 2003 15:47:56 GMT -5
define "caveman" Do you mean H. Habilis, H. erectus, Neanderthal or cro magnon. or do you mean fred and barney :P I mean all of them but Fred and Barney teacher tell you one thing and only a little bit of infomation and it very diffacult to find out more. And on the off change you find oput more information it is in a lot of very big words that makes it harder to undrstand. I have a little consin that loves to learn about cavemen and doinsauers but hes only four and its a litter hard to explain this sort of stuff to him and I want to know what they didand how actuit is the book Clan of the Cave Bear and the whols seires so maybe I could use that as a refercens when My little consin asks me "Wat did cavemen do Aunty?"
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Post by Hussar on Jan 26, 2004 23:54:46 GMT -5
Just picked up January's issue of Scientific American and found a wonderful article about a place in Turkey called Catalhoyuk. (From Scientific American): More information can be found at: www.catalhoyuk.com/and a great childrens website at: smm.org/catal/top.php
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Post by Hussar on Jan 26, 2004 23:58:36 GMT -5
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Post by khyron1144 on Feb 17, 2004 13:31:14 GMT -5
When they weren't busy surviving they probably told stories and created the basic elements of religion (there's a person in the sky who throws down lightning when he's angry; here's what to do to make him happy) and magic (if you paint buffalo on the walls of the cave the next buffalo hunt will go well).
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