What is another word for cavemen?

Pronunciation: [kˈe͡ɪvmɛn] (IPA)

The term "cavemen" refers to prehistoric humans who lived in caves or hunter-gatherer societies. However, some people find this term outdated and inaccurate, as it does not accurately represent the diverse characteristics and lifestyles of these early humans. As a result, other terms have been suggested as synonyms for "cavemen," such as "early humans," "Stone Age people," "paleolithic humans," "ancestral humans," or "prehistoric humans." These terms aim to be more inclusive and representative of the unique cultures and ways of life of ancient humans, highlighting their complex social structures, tools and technologies, and varied diets and environments.

What are the hypernyms for Cavemen?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    hominid, early human, ancient human, Primitive Human, Stone Age human, archaic human.

Usage examples for Cavemen

The cavemen, and the birds, too, and the fish and the plants, forsooth!
"The Kempton-Wace Letters"
Jack London Anna Strunsky
He turned as one who was bracing himself to meet an enemy, with a primitive prickling where the bristles used to rise on the necks of our cavemen ancestors.
"The Thunder Bird"
B. M. Bower
Lil grew accustomed to the drifts of hard copy that littered the house, to printing out her annotations to my designs and leaving them on my favorite chair - to living like the cavemen of the information age had, surrounded by dead trees and ticking clocks.
"Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom"
Cory Doctorow

Famous quotes with Cavemen

  • Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.
    Frank Darabont
  • Interestingly, Paleo Diet is getting extremely popular nowadays. It's also known as: Caveman Diet, Stone Age Diet and Hunter-Gatherer Diet. It's basically the diet that includes raw wild plants and animals eaten by human beings during the Paleolithic era (that ended 10,000 years ago.) It's an interesting dichotomy, imho, in light of the fact that most cavemen actually died as early as the age of 25. During that era, very few could make it anywhere close to the modern day life expectancy of 85 to 95 in many countries. There is absolutely no good alternative to balanced good diet, be it Paleo or otherwise, and most importantly, refraining from smoking and drinking excessively. Have a wonderful healthy life!
    Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
  • Its (reincarnation) reality, however, serves to generate activity throughout time’s framework as you understand it, to unite the species, to reinforce structures of knowledge, to transmit information, and perhaps most of all to reinforce relationships involving love, brotherhood, and cooperation between generations of men and women that would otherwise be quite separate and apart from each other. Through such relationships, for example, say, the cavemen and people of the 22nd century rub elbows, where in strict terms of time the species would seem to be quite disconnected form its earlier or later counterparts.
    Jane Roberts
  • Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated in this false development. I find this concept of art which has sustained man's vanity to be loathsome.
    Jean Arp

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