Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
George Bernard Shaw, "Ceasar and Cleopatra"
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A caveman is a popular stylized characterization of what early humans or hominids may have looked and behaved like. The term is sometimes used colloquially to refer to Neanderthals or to Homo sapiens of the Palaeolithic era, although popular descriptions of cavemen are usually highly inaccurate. The term has been discouraged recently for it's inaccuracy, as it mostly refers to modern misconceptions of early man. In the past, many people shared the view of the 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes that the life of early man (the state of nature) was "...solitary, poore, nasty, brutish and short".
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OK, my cavemen and cavegirl aren't very authentic. Those figures, sculpted by Mark Copplestone, are a kind of Hollywood-style embodiments. Anyway, i needed some figures with spears and shields for my norsemen army to set them to berserkers. And for this purpose they are suitable. Painted June 2005. The sabertooth is a Reaper miniature.
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