What race were cave men?

Question

What race were cave men?

Answer 1

Does the "human race" ring a bell?  

It does not matter what color of skin they had, race is relative. There were cave men who were considered humanoid but not human i.e. homo sapien such as the cromagnon man.

Answer 2

the purple race

Answer 3

Archaic AND modern Homo sapiens (humans) as well as Homo neanderthalensis (neandertals) both occupied rockshelters.  

As for races...well these people (at least the humans) include the ancestors of EVERYONE alive today. Differences between "races" are very minor and there is greater genetic variation between individuals of a given "race" than there is between two so-called different "races".

Answer 4

Butthash Heroes!

Answer 5

They were humans, so, the human race. Not, modern humans, like us but humans nonetheless.

Their official name was Homo Sapien Neanderthalinsis.

We are Homo Sapien Sapien.

Answer 6

Troglodites.

Answer 7

Many hold the theory that Africans descended from the earliest species of man - Homo habilus.

However, new evidence is being discovered all the time and the theories are changing.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/0...

Answer 8

Whereabouts? They were all over the planet. You'll need to be more area specific.

The first humans were black in Africa.

Cro Magnons were European looking with red and brown hair, but not blond and blue eyed until about 10,000 years ago.

Neanderthals had red hair and pale skin.

Answer 9

The human race.

And that's not this "free loving hippie" catch phrase. There is not enough difference in our DNA to be able to classify us as difference races. People look differently because of natural selection. They are traits that pose an advantage to a certain environment.

Read Ashley Monteque's "Man's most dangerous myth: The fallacy of race"

Although, some studies suggest that neanderthals may have had red hair, which would suggest lighter pigment. I haven't read much about that.

Really though, you could say that the race of cave men was homo neanderthalensis.

Answer 10

The expression "cave men" is both unclear and innaccurate of many people of the past.

There was no such thing as races then, in the modern sense of "race" (which is a bogus concept, anyway).

Here,

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/bein...

knock yourself out.

Answer 11

By "Caveman" you are suggesting the stereotype of a brutish, club swinging semi-animal that wears fur and lives in a cave. The humans that were the basis for the term have received a disservice by it. Unfortunately Hollywood has contributed too many lousy movies on "cavemen."

The keyword "dictionary" defines the term as:

"cave*man (noun) First appeared 1865. 1 : a cave dweller esp. of the Stone Age

2 : a man who acts in a rough or crude manner

The date is important. Neandertal Man, Homo sapiens neanderthalenis was first discovered in Germany's Neander Valley. The find was made in 1859. The bones were at various times claimed to be that of a caveman, and ape, a deformed human, and even a Russian Cossack from Napoleon's Army!

With a short, stocky body, bowed legs and a large jutting ridge over his eyes, Neandertal quickly be came portrayed as a brutish, dimwitted, and not acceptable in polite Company. In short the stereotypical caveman of bad movies.

Much of the problem that when the remains were fitted together, the scientists got it wrong. Modern reconstruction's, while keeping the stocky build, have changed the image. One display even has a Neandertal in evening clothes!

The Neandertals existed between 30,000 and 200,000 years ago. Their physical stature is similar to the Inuit of the far north (Eskimos) The body form conserves heat in a cold environment. Their bones were thicker, nasal passages larger, and their brains were of greater size then those of present-day humans.

The Neandertals used a limited tool kit to survive. The developed the Mousterian   system to chip stone and make their axes, scrapers, and points. Almost 3/4 of the game remains found at Neandertal sites is that if reindeer. Most Neandertal remains show injuries such as broken bones and dislocations. It has been suggested that their hunting methods exposed them to great danger and involved close contact with their prey.



The Neandertals were the first to express a religion. They buried their dead. Graves goods, food, tools and even flowers were interred with the body. One body found in Iraq was that of an old man that could only have lived based on the care of others. He had arthritis, a head injury that left him blind in one eye, and an amputed arm.

Recent testing of Neandertal DNA show that present day humans are not descended from the Neandertals. This has placed them outside the human line of descent. However, it should be remembered that this has happened before, Neandertals were out, only to be put back in.

Neandertals lived during the height of the last ice age. They were well adapted to the climate and were well able to survive. When the climate changed it appears that they were incapable of changing with it.

        Many groups of humans used the front of caves and rockshelters to protect themselves from the weather. They rarely ventured into the darkness, then for what seem to be religious ceremonies.

Here are some sites to learn more:



Neandertal

http://thunder.indstate.edu/~ramanank/li... (General information and links)

http://thunder.indstate.edu/~ramanank/in... (General information and links)

http://www.yfiles.com/neandertal.html (DNA information)

http://www.psu.edu/ur/NEWS/news/Neandert...

http://thunder.indstate.edu/~ramanank/la... (speech issue)

http://www.archaeology.org/9609/newsbrie... (contact with modern humans)

http://thunder.indstate.edu/~ramanank/ar... (art)

http://thunder.indstate.edu/~ramanank/fa... (fate of the species)

Answer 12

The following document explaines seriously that there is no scientifically reliable way to characterize the human variety with the rigid terms of "RACE" or „RACES“ or with the traditional "RACE" concept. There is no scientific reason to use the term "RACE" further. It wouldn’t be scientifically and politically correct.

„The advance of medical sciences in the past century has made it possible to refute the ideas that had been used to rationalize racism, for it is now agreed within the scientific community that phenotypic differences do not constitute significant differences between human beings and it is consequently INCORRECT TO SPEAK OF RACES ...“