Question 2 of 21

What language did cavemen speak?

... Anthropologists believe that cavemen may have spoken a form of click language, which is still used today by the Hadza people, the last functioning hunter-gatherer tribe in Africa (Tanzania). A click language is composed entirely of sounds, rather than letters. The specific sounds are similar to the tsk! tsk! or clip-clop! (horse) sounds in English.

Question 3 of 21

About 70 percent of all deaths during the Stone Age were from:

... With almost no knowledge of medicine in existence, even the smallest health issue could be deadly for cave dwellers.

Question 4 of 21

What type of disease caused the most deaths during the Stone Age?

... Infections were common because cavemen lacked basic hygiene. Once infection set in, the chances of recovery were almost nil.

Question 5 of 21

What was the base of the caveman diet?

... Although cavemen hunted, and gathered seeds and fruits, the main staple of their diet was tubers -- yams, sweet potatoes, radishes, ginger and rutabaga.

Question 6 of 21

What "taboo" item was commonly consumed during the early Stone Age?

... Cannibalism was widely practiced among the cavemen. Sure, cavemen ate some of those much-maligned carbohydrates in their fruits and tubers, but they worked them off. Dinosaurs and humans did not co-exist.

Question 7 of 21

How did cavemen live?

... Small groups, also known as bands, usually consisted of about 20 to 30 individuals, including men, women and children.

Question 8 of 21

Early cavemen did NOT have ________ as part of their everyday lives.

... During the Stone Age, people did not have the ability to melt and mold metal into tools.

Question 9 of 21

What was the main role of women in cave society?

... Evidence suggests that men hunted and women gathered food. Because women had to take children along with them, they had to take over less dangerous activities (in this case, gathering food rather than facing wild animals in hunts).

Question 10 of 21

What was the median lifespan for a woman in the late Paleolithic period?

... Men lived slightly longer than women's 30 years; male cavemen had a median lifespan of 35.4 years. Many women died young from complications during their pregnancies and deliveries.

Question 11 of 21

The cavemen are the likely inventors of what item that's still used today?

... Rafts seem to date as far back as 840,000 B.C., which would indicate they were created during the early Paleolithic period.

Question 12 of 21

Compared to the cavemen, we eat fewer ________ .

... The cavemen ate more fish and game meat, both of which are richer in omega-3 fatty acids. Omega-3s are essential for heart health.

Question 13 of 21

What type of religion did the cavemen likely practice?

... There's much debate about this in the scientific community, but a widely accepted theory is that those in the late Paleolithic era practiced animism. Animism is the belief that inanimate objects, such as rivers and thunder, are spiritual beings.

Question 14 of 21

Tools during the Stone Age were made of stone and what other materials?

... The two most common tool materials were bone or stone and were used by cavemen to make hand axes and choppers.

Question 15 of 21

How high was human infant mortality during cavemen times?

... Many babies -- about 30 percent -- died shortly after birth.

Question 16 of 21

Which of the following foods were NOT consumed during caveman times?

... Dairy products were not a part of people's diets until much later, when agriculture became a standard way of life.

Question 17 of 21

Bones of which animals have NOT been found near Paleolithic sites?

... The lack of elephant bones indicates that the animal was probably too big and difficult to hunt, so humans simply avoided it.

Question 18 of 21

Some theories suggest that early cavemen were NOT hunters but instead were ________ .

... Tools from the early Paleolithic era seem too rudimentary and crude to be useful for hunting. Some anthropologists believe humans were mostly scavengers at the time, picking animal carcasses of dead animals and catching dying ones.

Question 19 of 21

This was one of the most common caveman tools.

... A hammer stone is an ovoid smooth rock used in a manner similar to a modern hammer. Hammer stones didn't have handles.

Question 20 of 21

Did cavemen really live in caves?

... During the Stone Age, people were nomadic and would seek refuge wherever they could find it. Shelter could take the form of a cave, but some tribes also made temporary shelters using animal skins and bones.

Question 21 of 21

Compared with modern humans, cavemen were:

... Cavemen were shorter and stockier, with a higher percentage of muscle because of the heavy physical labor they did.

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