Did cavemen have bellybuttons?

Question

......i was thinking......when you cut the cord they put that clip in so it heals and a bellybutton forms....obviously cavemen didnt......so what did they do?

Answer 1

a belly button occurs naturally after the umbilical cord is gone. Its not formed by a plastic clip. The clip is just a sterile way to cut off blood supply and help the rest of the umbilical stump dry up and heal faster. in old times it was simpley tide off with a piece of string or allowed to naturally dry up after being cut. Look at medieval paintings of naked people, you'll see navals. In some parts of the world babies are born in grass huts, no plastic clips around and they have belly buttons. so yes cave men had belly buttons

Answer 2

First it needs to be proven that "cavemen" even existed before you can ask about bellybuttons.  To this day there is no concrete scientific proof that so-called prehistoric man existed.  Just a bunch of theories -  and every time they've found a skeleton or something that think was a prehistoric man, it's been proven a hoax.

To Icabod:  PROVE IT!

Answer 3

Yes they did.

You might as well include primitive tribes living today, people in the Middle Ages, Romans, Egyptians and pretty much everybody born before the clamp was invented.

What was done? "Where cutting the cord is completely omitted (a practice called "lotus birth" by its advocates), the umbilical cord is wrapped up to within an inch of the newborn's belly, and the entire intact cord is allowed to dry like a sinew, which then falls off.["

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbilical_c...

Most of the other sites viewed report the umbilical cord was cut, then tied. After a few days the stump fell off and healing was completed.

As for the remark about cavemen being a hoax, it's very wrong and not supported by facts.  

Answer 4

I guess it just falls off on it's own.

Answer 5

Well, in my art appreciation class we were studying the old stone age.

One of the pieces of art, a limestone carving, was of a large women. The women DID have a bellybutton.

So they may not have perfomed surgery back then, but their is proof that cavemen had navels.

btw, the carving is called Venus of Willendorf, in case you want to look it up.  

Answer 6

Cavemen came from eggs?

Answer 7

lots of people have no bellybuttons. Saudis, for example.

Answer 8

the only person i can think of who doesn't have a belly button is Kyle XY

Answer 9

it dries up and falls off eventually. so yes.