#cave men

[smbhax]

Amazing Adventures #3, August 1961. Stan Lee cover script, Jack Kirby pencils, Dick Ayers inks, Stan Goldberg colors, Artie Simek letters.

Info from Grand Comics Database

[northern-punk-lad]

Cave men chubby casers

[dk-thrive]

Art makes the difference between life and death, and it’s never not been essential, Winterson argues. “Who comes home, after a long day hunting and gathering just to stay alive, and settles down to paint pictures on the wall? Humans! And first we had to make the crayons. So don’t tell me art is a luxury.”

— Anthony Cummins, in his review of Jeanette Winterson's "One Aladdin Two Lamps" (The Guardian.com, November 11, 2025)

[evilhorse]

Tragg and the Sky Gods #4

[akkator]

By no means an original thought, but I have the hankering to play a prehistoric/early man (entirely not scientifically accurate) rpg.

[catandgirlcomic]

The night sky.

[covenawhite66]

Found in a cave: proof the Neanderthals were far from thick

Despite their image as lumbering brutes, discoveries in Gibraltar suggest these early humans painted, pondered and crafted tools with impres

Neanderthals used tar as glue to attach stones onto their spears using “anoxic heating". A pit was dug in a cave. The pit has a stone floor and fire was placed into that pit for the fire to be buried while still spreading heat. This heat was used to melt plant resin into glue.

Neanderthals also:

Used medicinal plants

Made specialised tools

Buried their dead

The discovery of an old Neanderthal man who was riddled with arthritis being used as an example for what all Neanderthals looked like; led to the false belief Neanderthals were hunchback and stupid.

[gaykarstaagforever]

We always assume ancient people were hard-up for food all the time.

And yes, it took them longer than it takes us to get snacks, especially with preparation and gathering. And they were highly susceptible to weather conditions and fires and vegetable blights.

But like...they probably wouldn't have decided to raise families where they did if those places were nutrient-poor.

I'm not saying they had a lot of fat people. But they certainly had SOME. Because don't try to tell me they didn't have ready snacks at hand. We love snacks. Especially when we're drunking. And evidence indicates beer was invented like the day after bread.

They died at 45 because they had no sophisticated way to deal with cavities and breech births and rocks falling on your knee and viruses they didn't understand. Not because they didn't have roasted nuts and dried fish and congealed pork fat mixed with blueberries when they wanted it.

We think "society" has made us lazy over-eaters. Sure, it provides ample opportunity to do that. But the point is, we WANT to do that. That's a basic drive, that seemingly all animals have. That's just doing little and stuffing your face. We do it, dogs do it, birds do it, T-Rexes did it.

Who doesn't want to sit around and eat all day? And no doubt any group of humans, or animals, is going to have members that accel at figuring out how to do that. And if populations are low and the biosphere is abundant, it can happen.

I just hate this idea that people 30,000 years ago were supposedly too stupid to figure out how to gather mounds of food and stuff their faces with it. If rats and monkeys can, and do!, do it, we did too.

Plus

More like PLUS SIZE, am I right??

...Ass up to her armpits. Hell yeah, girl.