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They did not normally live beyond 35 years, so their time was taken up with hunter/gathering, having sex and keeping themselves warm and dry.
12 years ago. Rating: 23 | |
Walking I'm sure, they did have to walk to the grocery store you know.
12 years ago. Rating: 13 | |
Perhaps the greatest exertion of a caveman’s week would be directed toward obtaining food. Yet researchers have found that hunting and gathering activities—the main work of nomadic clans—did not consume nearly as much of cavemen’s time as we might think.
According to Gary and Rain Klepper of Beck Natural Medicine University , Paleolithic groups of people worked together in their hunting and gathering tasks. To get enough food to eat, their “subsistence time” averaged roughly six hours a day, two days a week.
How hard would life have been if cavemen had been forced to hunt eight hours a day five days a week? They would have been tired all of the time—probably totally exhausted—much like their modern counterparts.
For cavemen, everything that led up to a hunt was preparation. Our ancestors probably spent a couple of hours a week preparing their spears. They had practice spears and spears for the hunt, all of which had to be sharp.
It’s also likely that they spent time pretending and practicing for hunts. This might be the time that the grown men involved the boys of a certain age in the training.
It was work, sure, but it was fun work—which boils down to what we like to call “play.” Imagine the pouncing, sneaking and throwing that went on. There was laughter, healthy competition and lots of learning.
Another tradition of ancient people was storytelling. Some might argue that relating stories isn’t working, but in their way it was a form of education.
They would be handing down techniques, methods, cautions and insights. This was how the cavemen did a lot of their teaching—a very enjoyable form of work.
So our idea of working 40 hours a week would be very different from theirs. Their lives included no clock punching, no hourly wages and no paychecks, but they still got the job done. And no matter how they measured time spent working, it’s a good bet their lives were quite full 24/7.
12 years ago. Rating: 12 | |
From what I have read, they played a lot of pinochle and drank a lot of beer.
12 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
Same thing they do today. Try to figure out how to have sex with the women. And how to keep the predators at bay. How to get a good night's sleep so they could shop for food the next day. (that's a poem). Of course their shopping was hunting and gathering food. Oh yeah and figuring out how to light a fire and roll a wheel.
12 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
Bowl. http://youtu.be/G_eBmaPmGOo
12 years ago. Rating: 5 | |