how did cavemen cut their toe nails?

Answer 1

I used to ask myself the same thing, like so with people on deserted islands. When I took anthropology and psychology in school for the first time I was in college, I learned that prehistoric man cut their toe nails and finger nails by way of grinding them against rocks. Some didn't know any better and just let them grow out, eventually they would catch on something and tear away. This has been discovered through careful resurrection of the corpses found overseas.

Answer 2

Remember that cavemen and cavewomen did not have shoes. They sometimes walked on all fours (dispute me on this). Their fingernails and toenails would be sharpened and shaved off by the ground, the rocks, and by any hard natural substance they encountered.. Their nails were also a defense for them kind of like claws are to cats and dogs, but obviously not as sharp.

Answer 3

The word caveman is often used to refer to Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon, or Homo sapiens of the Paleolithic era. The word Homo in Homo sapeins is Latin for "man' and the word sapiens is Latin for 'wise' or 'knowing'. Thus wise man.

In the beginning, teeth were undoubtedly the first tools to be used for cutting. However, they did skin elephants . It's hard to skin an elephant or even carve a statue just teeth alone. These were the 'wise men' and into making tools made of wood, bone, and stone appeared very early in prehistory. So, I think eventually they would have used sharp flints or even grounding stone (used for grinding) for their nails.

Answer 4

They used their toenails and every part of their body to survive. Their nails stayed more or less normal through climbing rocks, contact with sand, hard work etc...An example : Zebras have problems with their hooves that grow all out of proportion when they are forced to live in the wrong environment.
Not enough rocky ground to wear the hooves down naturally.
We are leading easy lives today, hence bad teeth, paunches, bad eyes and ears ,antibiotics ...side effects...etc ..etc...

Answer 5

With clippers constructed from bone fragments, then used a stone to file them afterwards.

Either that, or they sat there with their feet in their mouths chewing their nails away, but I think that is really gross!

Answer 6

I would think they either bit them off with their teeth, or they used stone tools to file them down or they just wore down natually like a dogs toenails do on cement and the such.

Answer 7

Since they didn't wear shoes they probably just wore down like they do in all other animals. I've never seen a monkey using clippers.

Answer 8

I think they just ran around on gritty rocks until those toenails wore down. I think that was probably the least of their personal hygiene troubles.

Answer 9

They probably didn't find the need to do so...unless a toenail was causing discomfort, they probably wore down or broke off on their own...perhaps were ripped or bitten off if the need/desire to shorten or remove them occured...

Answer 10

They used a technique we still use today called filing except they used a rock instead of a emory board.