“Must invent fire...need to light mosquito coil...”
The main difference being — Critics did not bash you anonymously in the paper, they bashed you physically with a club.
Which explains why OGG COSTNER was never seen again after his epic failure “Waterwall”. Unfortunately he had already procreated by that time.
Most of the paintings were of animals. A utilitarian (vs. impractical academic) explanation is either “restaurant menus” or “today’s game”. The local language was doubtless not written, and only marginally useful to the locals; immigrant hunters would need to point to pictures. Communal hunts would go much more smoothly if everyone was clear on what “grunt” meant. We seem to be devolving to a similar scenario (once BO completely destroys the currency and opens the borders).
Pretty fair flick: audience full of bare boobies, sabretooth fu, cave bear fu, fire-building fu, get-down boogie, Sophia Loren worship.
Joe Bob Briggs says check it out.