| Back in the days, when home was a cave
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| | We have war games with tiny toy soldiers
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| stuck on the face of a cliff.
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| | and cowboy and Indian sets. What is to
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| Kids, babies, cubs, kittens or whatever
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| | stop the tiny carved human figures from
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| you like to call the offspring, all have
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| | prehistory being toys to teach the kids
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| one thing in common. They love to play.
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| | the best way to hunt down a mammoth or
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| So I think we can safely assume that
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| | rhino or deer.
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| caveman kids played. But with what did
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| | If we made some replica models of some of
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| they play with.
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| | the artifacts, and gave them to our kids
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| What amused the minds of our ancestor's
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| | to play with in the sand pit. We might
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| kids. When they were lying around the
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| | see them reenacting a mammoth hunt or
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| fire after a hard day learning about
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| | chasing a wild deer into the ground.
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| staying alive. We are still trying to
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| | Some of the most valuable artifacts would
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| work out the minor details of the past
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| | suddenly be delegated from God status to
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| lives of children of prehistory, but we
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| | kid status.
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| can dream.
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| | I like to look at what we do now and them
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| Anyway, were the first jigsaw puzzles
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| | dream about what could have happened in
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| just leaves that had been ripped up into
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| | the caveman days.
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| little pieces so the little ones could
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| | Nowadays in any toyshop there is a shelf
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| put them back together. Was this a
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| | of toy plastic animals. Anything we see
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| teaching aid so the kids could learn
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| | in the wild or on the farm or in the home
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| which plants were safe to eat. We will
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| | is there in little packets.
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| possible never know but it is good to
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| | Did the caveman kids also have
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| ponder.
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| | collections of toys. Now, our kids even
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| Back in prehistory, before houses and
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| | have toy cavemen to play with, so what
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| cars and TVs, video games and all the
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| | did caveman kids play with.
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| modern gadgets that we have nowadays.
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| | I can remember "Fred Flintstone" on TV
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| What toys did caveman kids play with,
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| | but did Pebbles and BamBam have any toys.
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| when daddy was out hunting the mighty
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| | All I can remember is BamBam running
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| mammoth or giant sloth. And mommy was
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| | around with this big club. Now you can
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| gathering vegetables and herbs and
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| | buy big air-filled clubs and hammers that
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| grasses and whatever else they ate back
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| | don't hurt when they hit you on the head.
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| then.
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| | But back to reality, kids love to play
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| Anyway many artifacts have been dug up,
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| | and caveman kids would also have played,
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| mostly bone and rock carving of people
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| | but with what.
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| and wild animals. Beautiful carvings,
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| | Toy bows and arrows and toy spears. Like
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| something to be really proud of. Don't
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| | kids today who love anything to do with
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| you think that maybe, just maybe, it
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| | war. Would all the spear points belong to
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| might have been made by a dotting daddy
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| | daddy's toolbox or would the smaller ones
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| for his little son.
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| | belong to the son.
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| In the future when future man digs up
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| | They must have had something to play
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| what we leave behind, what conclusions
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| | with, but with what.
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| will they come to. Looking at some of the
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| | Maybe in the future someone scratching
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| dinosaur toys available, would they
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| | around in a long forgotten cave will
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| conclude that these beasts actually
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| | unearth the Barbie prototype. Or the
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| walked among the skyscrapers.
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| | lovely bird carved from a long dead
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| In the 25th century if you dug up an old
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| | mammoth tusk just might have been from
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| car toy that hadn't rusted away, how
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| | mummy to daughter.
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| would you explain it.
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| | And not some elegantly carved offering to
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| Would you say it was some sort of God
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| | an unknown God.
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| that we worshiped, or was it a decorative
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| | Article by copyright © Peter Legrove
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| item we used to show power. It could have
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| | 2006, at
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| been a model of the king's chariot.
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| | **You have permission to reprint this
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| But do we stop to think, that it may have
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| | article. Use it on your website, in your
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| been something for our kids to play with.
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| | ezine or newsletter. The only requirement
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| While we were out making more money to
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| | is to include the footnote at the base of
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| buy even more things for our kids to play
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| | the article.
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| with.
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