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Definition of Cavemen
1. caveman [n] - See also: caveman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cavemen
Literary usage of Cavemen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Evolution of the Hebrew People and Their Influence on Civilization by Laura Hulda Wild (1917)
"To understand the significance of the cavemen in Palestine it is necessary to
... The story which the cavemen, or troglodytes, tell is also most intimately ..."
2. Who's who Among North American Authors (1921)
"Ph.D., (U. of Chicago); AUTHOR: The Tree Dwellers; Industrial and Social History
Series; The Place of Industries in Elementary Education; The Early cavemen; ..."
3. Scientific Lectures by John Lubbock (1890)
"These cavemen were very ingenious, and excellent workers in flint; but though
their bone-pins, &c., are beautifully polished, this is never the case with ..."
4. The Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia: An Essay on Comparative by Sven Nilsson (1868)
"These cavemen were very ingenious, and excellent workers in flint; but though
their bone- pins, &c., are beautifully polished, this is never the case with ..."
5. Volleys from a Non-combatant by William Roscoe Thayer (1919)
"Despotism, the virtual ownership of the many by one or by a few, has existed
since the days of the cavemen. Strip it of its modern trappings and subterfuges ..."
6. The Early Cave-men by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp (1904)
"Why do you think the cavemen liked to find colored earth? ... Why did the cavemen
learn to roast food before they learned to boil it? ..."
7. Trade Foundations Based on Producing Industries (1919)
"Implements made by the cavemen have been found in the caves of France and Belgium
and in beds of drift gravel deposited by ancient rivers. ..."
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