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I remember in my ancient art history class we had to learn all about cave paintings. Specifically how the males would do one big hunt as a group right before winter kicked in fully and how they would sometimes get separated from the rest of the group for a couple months stuck in caves to wait out winter. A lot of the males would paint naked women and pray to it as a fertility ritual so their wives back home could have a healthy childbirth when spring comes around. At this point I was like "wait a second so these guys were isolated from the rest of the group with a bunch of frozen meat and nothing to do for a couple months and they always painted naked women? There was nothing religious about it they were just horny." My teacher freaked out about how the paintings were deeply religious to the cavemen and I was being disrespectful to her the class and the cavemen. She said I wouldn't understand because I haven't seen them in person but she has and you can just feel how important these paintings were to their painters. I didn't pass the class
"No, YOU don't understand because you're a woman."
they would sometimes get separated from the rest of the group for a couple months stuck in caves to wait out winter
No one called bullshit on this? They got separated on a hunting trip and never bothered to make it back to their shelters, where all their food and firewood was? What did they eat all winter, snow?
Being the hunters of the group, they'd be the ones with most of the food on them. Since they were out to get food in the first place when the snow started. A large hunting party generally gets kills (ranging from small to large game) immediately, but will still often spend additional days in order to be able to bring back more meat for the Winter. So any large hunting party that is any distance from home will be loaded with meat.
Meat that will spoil without preservation, and wouldn't sustain a group for months. The lean game one might encounter in winter is edible, but even that can lead to starvation. See Christopher McCandless.
I assume the caves in question are the ones in Lascaux, France, which is in the south and has mild winters. There's no wild snowstorm coming in and preventing the group from walking home. That kind of thing happens in movies. If, however, the region was prone to that, the hunting party would be well aware of the season and signs of an incoming blizzard and wouldn't risk death that late in the season. Men would be far more valuable at home, defending the women, children and elderly from other groups and threats.
"Cavemen" weren't dragging their knuckles on the ground and banging rocks together, as the 'academics' who clearly never spent any time outdoors would have people believe.
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