Cavemen

**Zain** · 10-26-2009, 02:00

Hey guys, I've been doing some thinking, based entirely about early humans. And it seems I have been curious about them. Does anyone know much about cavemen? I have been curious about how they reacted towards women. Did they choose one women like marriage? Or did they spread their "seed"?

**a completely inoffensive name** · 10-26-2009, 02:08

Darn it, I thought this was going to be about the television show.

**Samurai Waki** · 10-26-2009, 03:28

Are you asking about Neanderthals or early Homo-Sapiens?

**Strike For The South** · 10-26-2009, 03:30

Geico?

**Zain** · 10-26-2009, 03:32

Originally Posted by Wakizashi

Are you asking about Neanderthals or early Homo-Sapiens?

Heh, early humans...?

I find it hard to believe that we were once monkeys so let's just go with the ones that science says first started using tools.

**Samurai Waki** · 10-26-2009, 03:39

Originally Posted by Zain

Heh, early humans...?

I find it hard to believe that we were once monkeys so let's just go with the ones that science says first started using tools.

They existed at the same time (actually, Neanderthals were a bit older than we are), and both used tools.

Homo Habilis is our earliest direct ancestor that we know used tools.

**Kadagar_AV** · 10-26-2009, 03:40

It would be helpful if you could be more exact.

If we only talk about the "cavemen" as you so bluntly put it as the Homo group... we still have:

Homo habilis
Homo rudolfensis and Homo georgicus
Homo ergaster and Homo erectus
Homo cepranensis and Homo antecessor
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo rhodesiensis
Homo neanderthalensis
Homo sapiens
Homo floresiensis

Your question is very vague... Also, what exactly is the topic you want to discuss?

It's like someone walking in to a room saying "Hey, let's talk about bugs"

Would you by any chance be home schooled?

**Zain** · 10-26-2009, 03:42

Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV

It would be helpful if you could be more exact.

If we only talk about the "cavemen" as you so bluntly put it as the Homo group... we still have:

Homo habilis
Homo rudolfensis and Homo georgicus
Homo ergaster and Homo erectus
Homo cepranensis and Homo antecessor
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo rhodesiensis
Homo neanderthalensis
Homo sapiens
Homo floresiensis

Your question is very vague... Also, what exactly is the topic you want to discuss?

It's like someone walking in to a room saying "Hey, let's talk about bugs"

Would you by any chance be home schooled?

I've answered your home schooling question Kadagar...

And never mind guys. I just wanted to know how they dealt with their women. I HIGHLY doubt their scientific name really effects this.

Just close this

thread

**Samurai Waki** · 10-26-2009, 03:46

Originally Posted by Zain

I've answered your home schooling question Kadagar...

And never mind guys. I just wanted to know how they dealt with their women. I HIGHLY doubt their scientific name really effects this.

Just close this

thread

We don't know? They didn't write anything down about themselves, or how they reacted to the world. I mean, it took Homo Sapiens somewhere around 20,000 years before our languages could be articulated into writing.

**Louis VI the Fat** · 10-26-2009, 03:47

Originally Posted by Zain

Does anyone know much about cavemen? I have been curious about how they reacted towards women.

They hit them in the head with a club and then dragged them home. Ugh! Real men. Like me! Ugh!

Then they had dinosaur for dinner.

**Strike For The South** · 10-26-2009, 03:51

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

They hit them in the head with a bat and dragged them home! Ugh! Real men! Like me! Ugh!

Then they had dinosaur for dinner.

Dinsouars and humans? That's wrong. We all know dinosuars were planted by communists to undermine American Christians.

**Kadagar_AV** · 10-26-2009, 03:58

Right Zain, I forgot. So what kind of schooling do you have?

As to answer your question about interaction between men and women...

Now, this is of course VERY vague.

In the days of the hunter/gatherers, the main principle was one man and his mate. Science points towards a trend to live together like husband and wife.

However, should a man die, his woman would be taken by another man that looked after her, and had her as second wife. In SOME areas the first wife retained more rights to the husband than any second and thrid wife, this is however, of course very individual.

A woman could not survive alone, but needed a man to take care of her (as she did not know how to hunt).

"marriage" to use a modern phrase, was organized when two bands, or tribes, met.

Remember that this was in a time where you could walk for years without meeting anyone outside of your band.

So, when two bands met, they exchanged children. As they knew that you need a strong and diverse gene-seed to survive. Having sex within the family really isnt a very good idea, as you might know.

However, take everything I have written with a grain of salt, so to say. Fact is, we really are not very sure.