I mean, I am guessing that their nails just broke after a while, but what about their hair, did they just let it grow? Did they tie it into a knot? Did they maybe use some sort of primitive knife?
2006-12-31 12:56:16 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
I sometimes watch discovery channel, but Ive never actually seen anything about this subject
2006-12-31 13:03:14 · update #1
I saw a video once of a bushman plucking whiskers out of his face with a clam shell. Besides, don't you watch the Discovery channel?
2006-12-31 13:02:01 · answer #1 · answered by PartyTime 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
i watched a thing last night in the discovery channel hosted by one of the baldwin brothers on evolution it was called "something---cavemen" said how they did all that stuff and what tools came with each species. u should really check it out! at first cavemen had hair all over their body, it stoped growing at certain point. that species died off, then as more came eventually they had no hair and started making tools and learned how to become predetors instead of the prey. i am assuming they learned to cut their hair around that time. as for their nails, probably like dogs do! chew them off or they run around so much that they file them selves.
2006-12-31 21:07:31 · answer #2 · answered by myfriskypie 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, first off, if you mean cavemen, as in Neanderthals or other pre-cro-mangon (spelling?) man, their hair were probably different. People are adaptive creatures. First, human life originated in Africa, which means that Africans are probably genetically closest to the first people which have tight curly hair which grows easily than white flaxen hair that would not dread up as nicely. Plus, humans are adaptable, if early humans made arrow heads, I am sure they found ways to cut their hair with handmade shanks and stuff. Use your imagination, if you were a caveman, what would you use?
2007-01-01 02:15:01 · answer #3 · answered by fifimsp1 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe they just let the hair grow, and the nails I think that they wore off as they use them to make holes in the ground...
Clipping nails and cutting hair is just for aesthetics and hygiene for us. I think that cavemen where so occupied looking for food that anything else mattered for them.
They didn't bathe either... Ufff!!!!!
2006-12-31 21:06:52 · answer #4 · answered by roxifoxiv 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Go to a Zoo and look at the chimps's nails, they are identical to ours ,they just wear them off because they climb trees and eat with their hands.As for the hair,it was usefull because it kept them warm.
2007-01-02 19:22:04 · answer #5 · answered by Shark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would imagine they bit their nails off.Although I just can't imagine chewing off "toe nails" The have could have been cut with a piece of broken clam shell or a sharp edged rock?
2006-12-31 21:07:12 · answer #6 · answered by Jo 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
you may not believe this but archaeologists found striation groves on the teeth of women and not male bones and teeth that suggest the women bit all the nails off each other and the men. that is my understanding of what i read.
2006-12-31 21:01:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think they did, think they just left them and living did the chipping and breaking of the nails. as for their hair, don't think hair styles were top on their to do lists.
don't think they bathed ether. not to sure that hygiene was thought of back then. Bet they really stunk.
2006-12-31 21:04:08 · answer #8 · answered by Marg N 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Just watch the "Flintstones" cartoons, you'll learn everything you ever wanted to know about caveman daily life.
2007-01-01 13:13:04 · answer #9 · answered by rico3151 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
just guessing, they probably used the stone walls to file them down.
2006-12-31 21:04:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋