According to Figuier during the Reindeer Age (outdated, unused term refers to Upper Paleolithic, Late Stone Age), bone and reindeer's horn displaced flint. A caveman or troglodyte is a stock character based upon widespread concepts of the way in which early prehistoric humans may have looked and behaved. The term caveman, sometimes used colloquially to refer to Neanderthal people, originates out of assumptions about the association between early humans and caves, most clearly demonstrated in cave painting or bench models. Image taken from Primitive Man by Louis Figuier, 1870.

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