cave dweller
noun
1
: one (such as a prehistoric human) that dwells in a cave
2
: one that lives in a city apartment building
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In addition, research shows that cave dwellers would have sometimes been high on drugs.
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Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
And the framing device involving prehistoric cave dwellers should have been left on the cutting room floor.
—Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2025
The film uses a fable-like framing story about two prehistoric cave dwellers who may very well be the first married couple.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2025
But instead of sunlight, these cave dwellers rely on carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H₂) emitted from Erebus’s volcanic vents.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Back in January, cave dweller Beatriz Flamini posed this question to D.T.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Dec. 2024
That close and unmediated relationship between performers and listeners has been fundamental to music since a cave dweller first tapped two rocks together and a companion howled along.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
From the day the first primitive human clambered up a tree while fleeing a pack of ravenous wolves — and later grunted out the details of their narrow escape to cave dwellers around a campfire — the human brain appears to have been hard-wired to process and retain stories.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 8 July 2024
But ancient cave dwellers weren’t sitting around the fire quaffing crisp lagers and hazy IPAs.
—Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
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Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
And the framing device involving prehistoric cave dwellers should have been left on the cutting room floor.
—Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2025
The film uses a fable-like framing story about two prehistoric cave dwellers who may very well be the first married couple.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2025
But instead of sunlight, these cave dwellers rely on carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H₂) emitted from Erebus’s volcanic vents.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Back in January, cave dweller Beatriz Flamini posed this question to D.T.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Dec. 2024
That close and unmediated relationship between performers and listeners has been fundamental to music since a cave dweller first tapped two rocks together and a companion howled along.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
From the day the first primitive human clambered up a tree while fleeing a pack of ravenous wolves — and later grunted out the details of their narrow escape to cave dwellers around a campfire — the human brain appears to have been hard-wired to process and retain stories.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 8 July 2024
But ancient cave dwellers weren’t sitting around the fire quaffing crisp lagers and hazy IPAs.
—Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
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